GAP Installation Instructions
The Basic Steps of a GAP Installation
Note that to obtain a fully functional GAP installation you need not only to
compile the core system, but also some of its packages. You might want to consider
one of the alternative installation methods
which achieve this for you automatically. Otherwise, to install
GAP using the source distribution, perform the following steps:
- Verify that all required tools are installed.
- Choose your preferred archive format and download
the corresponding archive.
- Unpack the archive.
- On UNIX, Linux or macOS: compile the GAP core system
by running
./configure; make in the unpacked directory.
- On UNIX, Linux or macOS: change to the
pkg subdirectory and call
../bin/BuildPackages.sh to run the script which will build most of
the packages that require compilation (provided sufficiently many libraries, headers
and tools are available). If something doesn't work on your system, please
refer to the README file provided with the corresponding package.
- On Windows: no compilation is needed, since compiled executables for GAP
and some packages are already provided by the
.exe installer.
- Adjust some links/scripts/icons etc., depending on your system, to
make the new version of GAP available to the users of
your machine.
- Optional: run a few tests.
For detailed installation instructions for the GAP source
distribution on UNIX (which includes Linux), macOS, and on Windows
see the INSTALL.md file,
which may be found in the GAP root directory after
unpacking the archive with the GAP distribution.
Optional:
GAP starts up much faster using a so called workspace.
A workspace can be generated and used as shown in
the script CreateWorkspace.sh .
Note that the CreateWorkspace.sh script may require
chmod +x CreateWorkspace.sh first.
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