Software Requirements

Polylib is built on top of GNU software. In order to install Polylib you will need the following tools.

• The GNU configure command.
• The GNU make command.
• The GNU gcc compiler.
• uncompressing facilities (zcat, gunzip, tar)

On Windows platforms, all these GNU command are available if you install cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/. Polylib may be compiled in 32 bit integer mode, 64 bit integer mode or arbitrary precision integer mode. This last mode requires the GNU GMP library (ftp://ftp.gnu.org). Note that this library is not mandatory, you can compile polylib on 32 or 64 bit mode without having GMP installed. Documentation is available in the distribution, however, if you want to create documentation files from sources you will need the Doc++ documentation tool http://docpp.sourceforge.net/ and a Latex Distribution.