TeX are necessary.
Known to work with:
- - Linux on x86 and x86_64 using GCC 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2.
- - Linux on Alpha using GCC 3.4.
- - Solaris on Sparc using GCC 3.4.
+ - Linux on x86 and x86_64 using
+ - GCC 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3.x (x >= 1), 4.4, 4.5, and 4.6
+ - Clang 2.8
- Windows on x86 using GCC 3.4 (MinGW)
Known not to work with:
+ - Clang 2.7 and earlier due to poor C++ support.
- GCC 4.3.0 due to the compiler bug,
see <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35548>.
- GCC 2.96 or earlier because proper exception and standard library support
is missing there.
-If you install from CVS, you also need GNU autoconf (>=2.59), automake (>=1.7),
+If you install from git, you also need GNU autoconf (>=2.59), automake (>=1.8),
libtool (>= 1.5), bison (>= 2.3), flex (>= 2.5.33) to be installed.
More detailed installation instructions can be found in the documentation,
in the doc/ directory.
-The time the "make" step takes depends heavily on optimization levels. Large
-amounts of memory (>128MB) will be required by the compiler, also depending
-on optimization. To give you a rough idea of what you have to expect the
-following table may be helpful. It was measured on an Athlon/800MHz with
-"enough" memory:
+The time the "make" step takes depends on optimization levels. To give you
+a rough idea of what you have to expect the following table may be helpful.
+It was measured on an Athlon X2/3GHz with 4Gb of RAM.
step | GCC optimization | comment
| -O1 | -O2 |
--------------+---------+---------+----------------------------------------
-make | ~6m | ~8m | shared and static library
-make check | ~8m | ~12m | largely due to compilation
+make | ~1m | ~2m | shared library only (--disable-static),
+ | | | parallel compilation (MAKEFLAGS=-j2)
+make check | ~6m | ~6m | largely due to compilation
-To install from CVS
+To install from git
===================
First, download the code:
-
- $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.ginac.de:/home/cvs/GiNaC login
- [enter "anoncvs" as the password]
- $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.ginac.de:/home/cvs/GiNaC co GiNaC
- $ cd GiNaC
+ $ git clone git://www.ginac.de/ginac.git ginac
+ $ cd ginac
Secondly, make sure all required software is installed. This is *really*
important step. If some package is missing, the `configure' script might
Problems with CLN
-----------------
-You should use at least CLN-1.1, since during the development of GiNaC
+You should use at least CLN-1.2.2, since during the development of GiNaC
various bugs have been discovered and fixed in earlier versions. Please
install CLN properly on your system before continuing with GiNaC.
Problems building ginsh
-----------------------
-The most common reason why this doesn't succeed is the absence of GNU
-libreadline and/or the corresponding header files. Depending on what your
-system/distribution is, you will have to install a package called
-libreadline and maybe libreadline-dev. If your system's vendor doesn't
-supply such packages, go to <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/> and compile
-it yourself. Note that non-GNU versions of libreadline (in particular
+The GiNaC interactive shell, ginsh, makes use of GNU readline to provide
+command line editing and history. If readline library and/or headers are
+missing on your system, the configure script will issue a warning. In this
+case you have two options:
+
+1) (the easiest) If you don't intend to use ginsh (i.e. if you need GiNaC
+library to compile some piece of software), ignore it. ginsh builds just
+fine without readline (obviously, it won't support the command line history
+and editing).
+
+2) Install GNU readline and run the configure script once again. Depending on
+what your system/distribution is, you will have to install a package called
+libreadline and libreadline-dev (or readline-devel). If your system's vendor
+doesn't supply such packages, go to <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/> and
+compile it yourself. Note that non-GNU versions of libreadline (in particular
one shipped with Mac OS X) are not supported at the moment.
Problems with missing standard header files
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