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GLOSSARY
Developing the Ledger software uses a number different tools, not all of which will be familiar to all developers.
Boost: a standard set of C++ libraries. Most Boost libraries consist of inline functions and templates in header files.
CMake: A cross platform system for building from source code. It uses the CMakeLists.txt files.
DOxygen: generates programming documentation from source code files. Primarly used on C++ sources, but works on all. Uses the doc/Doxyfile.in file.
GCC: Gnu Compiler Collection, which includes the gcc compiler and gcov coverage/profiler tool.
GMP: Gnu Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library provides arbitrary precision math.
Markdown: A typesetter format that produces html files from *.md files. Note that GitHub automatically renders .md files.
Texinfo: Gnu documentation typesetter that produces html and pdf files from the doc/*.texi files.
Travis CI: a hosted continuous integration service that builds and runs tests each commit posted to GitHub. Each build creates a log, updates a small graphic at the top left of the main project's README.md, and emails the author of the commit if any tests fail.
