Requirements

In order to run featsel, there are mandatory and recommended software requirements. These latter ones are not required to run the framework, but they allow the user to make use of extra features.

== Mandatory dependencies

• a terminal environment (XTerm, MS-DOS prompt, etc.);

• the "make" command or equivalent;

• a C++ compiler (GNU g++ or equivalent), with the standard libraries.

== Recommended dependencies

• GNU Bison 2.4.1 or higher, required to update the XML parser.

• Flex 2.5 or higher, also required to update the XML parser.

• Perl 5 interpreter version 17 or higher, which is required to:

  • recompile 'featsel.cpp' and 'featselTest.cpp' files;
  • add and remove algorithms and cost functions;
  • run the benchmarking program.

• Gnuplot to generate performance graphs using the benchmarking program.

• GNU groff to update a help man page.

• Weka workbench version 3.6.13 (to run the benchmarking script).