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GLOSSARY
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Developing the Ledger software uses a number different tools, not all of
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which will be familiar to all developers.
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[**Boost**](http://www.boost.org): a standard set of C++ libraries. Most
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Boost libraries consist of inline functions and templates in header files.
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[**CMake**](http://www.cmake.org): A cross platform system for building
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from source code. It uses the *CMakeLists.txt* files.
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[**DOxygen**](http://doxygen.org): generates programming documentation from
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source code files. Primarly used on C++ sources, but works on all. Uses
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the *doc/Doxyfile.in* file.
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[**GCC**](http://gcc.gnu.org): Gnu Compiler Collection, which includes the
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*gcc* compiler and *gcov* coverage/profiler tool.
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[**GMP**](https://gmplib.org): Gnu Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
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provides arbitrary precision math.
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[**Markdown**](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/): A typesetter
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format that produces *html* files from *\*.md* files. Note that GitHub automatically renders *.md* files.
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[**Texinfo**](http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/): Gnu documentation
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typesetter that produces *html* and *pdf* files from the *doc/\*.texi*
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files.
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[**Travis CI**](https://travis-ci.org): a hosted continuous integration
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service that builds and runs tests each commit posted to GitHub. Each
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build creates a [log](https://travis-ci.org/ledger/ledger), updates a
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[small graphic](https://travis-ci.org/ledger/ledger.png?branch=master) at
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the top left of the main project's
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[README.md](https://github.com/ledger/ledger/blob/master/README.md), and
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emails the author of the commit if any tests fail.
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Orientation
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The source tree can be confusing to a new developer. Here is a selective
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orientation:
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**./acprep**: a custom thousand-line script to install dependencies, grab
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updates, and build. It also creates *\*.cmake*,
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*./CmakeFiles/* and other CMake temporary files. Use *./acprep --help*
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for more information.
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**./README.md**: user readme file in markdown format, also used as the project
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discription on GitHub.
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**./contrib**: contributed scripts of random quality and completion. They usually require editing to run.
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**./doc**: documentation, licenses, and
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tools for generating documents such as the *pdf* manual.
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