Requirements

These requirements are mandatory:

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

• the "make" command or equivalent;

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

Additionally, the following dependencies are recommended:

• 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).