Appendix A Installing PSPP

PSPP conforms to the GNU Coding Standards. PSPP is written in, and requires for proper operation, ANSI/ISO C. You might want to additionally note the following points:

• The compiler and linker must allow for significance of several characters in external identifiers. The exact number is unknown but at least 31 is recommended.
• The int type must be 32 bits or wider.
• The recommended compiler is gcc 2.7.2.1 or later, but any ANSI compiler will do if it fits the above criteria.

Many UNIX variants should work out-of-the-box, as PSPP uses GNU autoconf to detect differences between environments. Please report any problems with compilation of PSPP under UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems—portability is a major concern of the author.

The pages below give specific instructions for installing PSPP on each type of system mentioned above.

• UNIX installation: Installing on UNIX-like environments.