Installation procedure

The Polylib-tree will require about 12 MB of disc space. Download the polylibX.Y.tgz on http://www.irisa.fr/polylib/ Then type:

gunzip  polylibX.Y.tgz
tar -xvf polylibX.Y.tar

This will extract the tar file and install all the files properly. The top-directory for the distribution will be named Polylib. This directory will be called Polylib hereafter. This is how the Polylib-directory will look like after the extraction:

ArithLib/
Test/
include/
source/
Changes
configure.in
vars.mk
vars.mk.in
Makefile
install-sh
config.guess
config.sub
configure

The installation procedure is based on the configure.in file which checks for conditions that may change from one system to another, such as the presence of particular header files or functions. The config.sub and config.guess files are provided for an auto configuration process. They are used to determine the host operating system, cpu, etc and put them into a canonical form. The configure script tries to set system-dependent variables and creates vars.mk which is used then in the Makefile. It will report what it finds. The commands that should be typed for installing Polylib and testing its working are the following.

cd Polylib
./configure
make
make test

By default, the configure script install the 64 bit integer mode, many parameter of the configure script can be changed (see the explanations hereafter).