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Currently, the only intended way to install Matita is starting from its source code.
You can get the Matita source code in two ways:
go to the download page and get the latest released source tarball;
get the development sources from our
SVN repository. You will need the
components/ and
matita/ directories from the
trunk/helm/software/ directory, plus the
configure and Makefile*
stuff from the same directory.
In this case you will need to run autoconf before proceding with the building instructions below.
In order to build Matita from sources you will need some tools and libraries. They are listed below.
If you are running a Debian GNU/Linux distribution
you can have APT install all the required tools and libraries by
adding the following repository to your
/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://people.debian.org/~zack unstable helm
and installing the helm-matita-deps package.
Required tools and libraries
the Objective Caml compiler, version 3.09 or above
OCaml package manager, version 1.1.1 or above
OCaml bindings for the expat library
OCaml bindings for the Gdome 2 library
OCaml library to write HTTP daemons (and clients)
OCaml bindings for the GTK+ library , version 2.6.0 or above
GTK+ widget to render MathML documents and its OCaml bindings
extension for the GTK+ text widget (adding the typical features of source code editors) and its OCaml bindings
SQL database and OCaml bindings for its client-side library
The SQL database itself is not strictly needed to run Matita, but we stronly encourage its use since a lot of features are disabled without it. Still, the OCaml bindings of the library are needed at compile time.
collection of OCaml libraries to deal with application-level Internet protocols and conventions
Unicode lexer generator for OCaml
OCaml library to access .gz files
To fully exploit Matita indexing and search capabilities you will need a working MySQL database. Detalied instructions on how to do it can be found in the MySQL documentation. Here you can find a quick howto.
In order to create a database you need administrator permissions on
your MySQL installation, usually the root account has them. Once you
have the permissions, a new database can be created executing
mysqladmin create matita
(matita is the default database name, you can
change it using the db.user key of the
configuration file).
Then you need to grant the necessary access permissions to the
database user of Matita, typing echo "grant all privileges
on matita.* to helm;" | mysql matita should do the trick
(helm is the default user name used by Matita to
access the database, you can change it using the
db.user key of the configuration file).
This way you create a database named matita on which anyone claiming to be the helm user can do everything (like adding dummy data or destroying the contained one). It is strongly suggested to apply more fine grained permissions, how to do it is out of the scope of this manual.
Once you get the source code the installations steps should be quite familiar.
First of all you need to configure the build process executing
./configure. This will check that all needed
tools and library are installed and prepare the sources for compilation
and installation.
Quite a few (optional) arguments may be passed to the configure command line to change build time parameters. They are listed in the table below, together with their default values.
Table 2.1. configure command line arguments
| Argument | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
--with-runtime-dir=
|
/usr/local/matita/
|
Runtime base directory where all Matita stuff (executables, configuration files, standard library, ...) will be installed |
--with-dbhost=
|
localhost |
Default SQL server hostname. Will be used while building the standard library during the installation and to create the default Matita configuration. May be changed later in configuration file. |
--enable-debug
|
disabled |
Enable debugging code. Not for the casual user. |
Then you will manage the build and install process using make as usual. Below are reported the targets you have to invoke in sequence to build and install.
make targets
world
builds components needed by Matita and Matita itself (in bytecode only or in both bytecode and native code depending on the availability of the OCaml native code compiler)
library
uses the (just built) matitac compiler to build the Matita standard library.
For this step you will need a working SQL database (for indexing the standard library while you are compiling it). See Database setup for instructions on how to set it up.
install
installs Matita related tools, standard library and the needed runtime stuff in the proper places on the filesystem