X-Git-Url: https://www.ginac.de/ginac.git//ginac.git?p=ginac.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=bfa4bdd97c9f14a45d0ca35fde0667eb9a748beb;hp=2c60d2d365ba3388da73539f7eac2a6e197adf31;hb=d8b5a1f3ff5a6b7e89f4dd00b92779f178089299;hpb=2ceece87ee96c370cfcd2408d069d1fd913792ab diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 2c60d2d3..bfa4bdd9 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -5,24 +5,33 @@ GiNaC requires the CLN library by Bruno Haible installed on your system. It is available from . You will also need a decent ANSI-compliant C++-compiler. We recommend the -C++ compiler from the GNU compiler collection, GCC >= 3.0. If you have a +C++ compiler from the GNU compiler collection, GCC >= 3.4. If you have a different or older compiler you are on your own. Note that you may have to use the same compiler you compiled CLN with because of differing name-mangling schemes. +The pkg-config utility is required for configuration, it can be downloaded +from . + To build the GiNaC tutorial and reference manual the doxygen utility (it can be downloaded from http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen) and TeX are necessary. Known to work with: - - Linux on x86, Alpha and Sparc using GCC 3.x and 4.0. + - 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 . - 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) and -automake (>=1.7) to be installed. +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. INSTALLATION @@ -35,18 +44,6 @@ To install from a source .tar.bz2 distribution: [become root if necessary] # make install -To install from CVS: - - $ 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 - $ autoreconf -i - $ ./configure - $ make - [become root if necessary] - # make install - To build the GiNaC tutorial and reference manual in HTML, DVI, PostScript, or PDF formats, use one of @@ -60,9 +57,8 @@ library works correctly you can use $ make check -The "configure" script (and "autogen.sh", which invokes "configure") can be -given a number of options to enable and disable various features. For a -complete list, type: +The "configure" script can be given a number of options to enable and +disable various features. For a complete list, type: $ ./configure --help @@ -78,18 +74,40 @@ A few of the more important ones: 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 git +=================== +First, download the code: + $ 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 +be misgenerated, see e.g. this discussion: + + +Finally, run + + $ autoreconf -i + +to generate the `configure' script, and proceed in a standard way, i.e. + + $ ./configure + $ make + [become root if necessary] + # make install COMMON PROBLEMS =============== @@ -97,19 +115,28 @@ COMMON PROBLEMS 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 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 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