Building Singular from source

Build the development branch of Singular as follows:

1. get the sources with git clone -b spielwiese git://github.com/Singular/Sources.git <directory_name>
2. cd <directory_name_from_above>
3. run ./autogen.sh (formerly known as ./for_Hans_with_love.sh) from the root directory
4. run ./configure
5. make (or make -jN where N is the number of the your CPU cores + 1)

• NOTE: using make install instead is not recommended yet, but fill free to test it.

Build problems within Singular/ directory

• NOTE: the directory has not been migrated to automake yet and contains at the moment only a very simple static makefile.

  1. if make process stops here saying that feOpt.inc is missing - please, simply run the same make command again.

Test the Spielwiese Singular as follows:

• make check will build and run simple unit-tests in omalloc/, libpolys/, kernel/ and Singular/
• the test-suites from Tst/ can be run, for example, as follows:
  1. cd Tst/
  2. ln -s ../Singular/LIB
  3. ln -s ../Singular/Singular
  4. ln -s ../Singular/Singularg
  5. ln -s ../libpolys/polys/.libs MOD
  6. after the above symbolic-linking one can simply run ./regress.cmd something.{lst,tst}, where .lst files are just lists of tests, which are .tst files

Build the legacy Singular as follows:

1. get the sources with git clone -b trunk git://github.com/Singular2/Sources.git <directory_name>
2. cd <directory_name_from_above>
3. run ./configure from the root directory
4. make install (or make -jN install, where N as above), and yes it should really be install!
5. everything will be put to the newly created directory "$Architecture-$OS/" (e.g. x86_64-Linux, ix86-Linux etc.)