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<h3><span class="header-section-number">1.2.2</span> Building CmdStan</h3>
<p>Building CmdStan involves preparing a set of executable programs
and compiling the command line interface and supporting libraries.
The CmdStan tools are:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><code>stanc</code>: the Stan compiler (translates Stan language to C++).</p></li>
<li><p><code>stansummary</code>: a basic posterior analysis tool.
The <code>stansummary</code> utility processes one or more output files from a run
or set of runs of Stan’s 