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The <code>PKG_CONFIG</code> and <code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code> environmental variables are required as a part of the <code>pkg-config</code> utility required to install Ginac. | The <code>PKG_CONFIG</code> and <code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code> environmental variables are required as a part of the <code>pkg-config</code> utility required to install Ginac. | ||
== Build == | |||
The build process is the usual, with some additional steps/targets: | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | |||
$ ./configure # <-- or, your configure wrapper script | |||
$ make | |||
$ make install | |||
$ make check # <-- confirm that Ginac was built correctly | |||
$ make html # <-- make html documentation | |||
$ make dvi # <-- make dvi documentation | |||
$ make ps # <-- make postscript documentation | |||
$ make pdf # <-- make PDF documentation | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
= References = | = References = | ||
Revision as of 20:36, 6 October 2010
GiNaC, which stands for Ginac is Not a Computer algebra system, is a C++ package which provides a set of objects to perform symbolic mathematical operations. You can think of it as a C++ core that can be used by
Installation
Dependencies
In order to install Ginac, the pkg-config utility is required. It is available from http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/ . In addition, Doxygen, while not required, can be used to generate the reference manual yourself.
Configure
You can build Ginac using the following configure line:
export PKG_CONFIG=/sw/bin/pkg-config
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/Users/charles/pkg/cln-1.3.1/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
./configure \
--prefix=/path/to/ginac
The PKG_CONFIG and PKG_CONFIG_PATH environmental variables are required as a part of the pkg-config utility required to install Ginac.
Build
The build process is the usual, with some additional steps/targets:
$ ./configure # <-- or, your configure wrapper script
$ make
$ make install
$ make check # <-- confirm that Ginac was built correctly
$ make html # <-- make html documentation
$ make dvi # <-- make dvi documentation
$ make ps # <-- make postscript documentation
$ make pdf # <-- make PDF documentation
References
Ginac main page - http://www.ginac.de/