Download MMAlpha Version 2

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MMAlpha Version 2.1.0 13/07/2010 (Linux and MaxOSX)
or
MMAlpha Version 2.0.1 06/09/2008 (Linux and MaxOSX)

Required:
- About 50 Mb of free space
- Mathematica, versions 4 or later
Get the mmalphaV2-1-0.zip archive (16.8 Mb) and expand it (gunzip) unless this is done automatically by your operating system. It creates a directory named mmalphaV2-0-1 where everything is.
or get the mmalphaV2-0-1.zip archive (16.8 Mb) and expand it (gunzip) unless this is done automatically by your operating system. It creates a directory named mmalphaV2-1-0 where everything is.
Open the index.html file in the mmalphaV2-1-0 directory.

Installation Instructions

This new version has been used mainly on Mac OS X and is currently being adapted for Linux. A Windows version will appear soon. If you are interested, and if you cannot make MMAlpha run on your machine, please sent me a mail (patrice dot quinton at irisa dot fr).
Basically, the installation is as follows (provided you have Mathematica...)
- Download and expand MMALPHA (should work on any environment).
- Define an MMALPHA environment variable which contains the position where you installed MMALPHA. Unix user know how to do that, on Windows, it is a little bit more complicated (see the documentation).
- Add to your PATH environment variable the location where the binaries of the MMALPHA programs are. This depends on your OS. For Mac OS X, it is in $MMALPHA/bin.darwin, for Linux, it should be in $MMALPHA/bin.linux, and for Windows users, it is in $MMALPHA/bin.cygwin. Again, updating $PATH is easy on Unix, a little bit less on Windows.
- Put a copy of file $MMALPHA/init.m in the User Base Directory of Mathematica. The User Base Directory is a directory which is known by Mathematica, and which depends on which version of Mathematica you have. Until version 5, this directory was the Home directory. Since version 5, it is somewhere else. To know it, start Mathematica and evaluate $UserBaseDirectory: it will print this location. This init.m file, once placed in the user base directory, is executed whenever Mathematica is launched, and it allows MMAlpha to be properly loaded. Another solution is to load directly the init.m file which is located in $MMALPHA/init.m from a Mathematica notebook, by typing <
- Another word regarding the installation of Mathematica. If you are working on a server where Mathematica is installed, then usually, typing mathematica starts the notebook interface, and math starts the kernel. If Mathematica is installed on your own local space, for example, on your laptop, then you have to start Mathematica from a terminal window, otherwise, the environment variables are not known by the application.
- If all this is done properly, everything should work fine. But you may still have unexpected trouble. The main problems may be related to the binaries that we provide with MMALPHA. Your version allows one to recompile the source files, but it is very tricky since it depends on your OS but also on your version of Mathematica.
- In case of troubles, there is in the MMALPHA version a Mathematica file called diagnose.m, placed in $MMALPHA/config/diagnosis.m . You may run this program from a Mathematica notebook by typing <<.../config/diagnosis.m. It gives a couple of messages, and prints a file named diagnosis.txt in the current directory of Mathematica.

Last modification of this page: Sept. 2008.