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