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Building on Linux

1. Lisp and noweb prerequisites

   If any of GCL or noweb is missing from the environment environment where you're building, then you need to either separately install them, or download the dependency tarball

   open-axiom-1.1.x-dep.tar.bz2

   Please, notice that GCL and noweb are needed only to build OpenAxiom. If you plan to build OpenAxiom often, then it probably is a good idea to separately build and install those tools once for all.

   If you already have GCL and noweb installed, please go to step 2.

2. Download the dependency tarball open-axiom-1.1.x-dep.tar.bz2
3. Decompress the dependency tarball

   tar jxfv open-axiom-1.1.x-dep.tar.bz2

   That should decompress the dependency tarball in a directory named open-axiom-1.1.x. Rename it to open-axiom-1.2.0, e.g.:

   mv open-axiom-1.1.x open-axiom-1.2.0

4. Building OpenAxiom

   It is assumed you have already downloaded open-axiom source tarball, e.g. open-axiom-1.2.0.tar.bz2.

   Note: If you don't have GCL or noweb in the build environment, please make sure that you have either followed the instructions in step 1., or have separately installed them before proceeding.

5. Decompress the OpenAxiom source tarball

   tar jfxv open-axiom-1.2.0.tar.bz2

6. Configure OpenAxiom

   It is highly recommended that you build OpenAxiom in a directory different from the one that contains the sources. For example, you may create a directory sibling to open-axiom-1.2.0 and build the system from there:

   mkdir build-oa cd build-oa ../open-axiom-1.2.0/configure

   It is possible to tell configure where to put the final OpenAxiom executables. By default, when you just type in configure like above, it will configure the system with prefix /usr/local. You can instead say where you want it to be installed, let's say /banana/space. You would then have typed

   ../open-axiom-1.2.0/configure --prefix=/banana/space

   This is recommended, especially if you already have a different software, not OpenAxiom, the executable filename of which is also called `axiom'. That way, you don't confuse OpenAxiom's command `axiom', with any other program that you may have on your system. Most users usually have only one software with a given name on their machines. If you plan to have many software sharing the same executable name, please make sure that you install them in distinct directories so that they don't conflict.

7. Make the system

   Just type make or make 2>&1 | tee build.log if you would like to inspect the build messages later on -- but most users probably don't.

   It can take from 30min to 2 hours to build, depending on the compute power of the build machine.

8. Installing OpenAxiom

   Once the build (step 2.) has gone successfully, you may optionally try to regress-test the system -- it can take hours.

9. (optional)

   make check 2>&1 | tee tests.log

10. The system is ready to install

    If you configured the system to install in a place that needs special privilege, e.g. /usr/local that requires administrator write, please make sure that you've gained the adequate privileges. Then, type:

    make install

11. The system is ready for use

    After step 10, your should have a script called `open-axiom', in /usr/local/bin or /banana/space/bin or /whichever/prefix/you/used/bin, ready for use.

Building on Windows

For how to prepare an MSYS/MinGW system to build OpenAxiom on Windows see: BuildOnWindows

Download the source from the repository at:

• svn co https://open-axiom.svn.sf.net/svnroot/open-axiom/trunk oa.trunk

The source is the same as one used to build on Unix or GNU/Linux.

Once you got it, please look at oa.trunk/INSTALL for requirements.

The native Windows binary is here

• http://downloads.sourceforge.net/open-axiom/

You can build it with just MSYS/MinGW, as you would build it on a unix/linux platform

./configure && make && make install