<!-- ============= Installation ============================== -->
-<sect1 id="sec_install">
+<chapter id="sec_install">
<title>Installation</title>
- <sect2>
- <title>Installing &appname; from sources</title>
+ <sect1 id="inst_from_src">
+ <title>Installing from sources</title>
<para>Currently, the only intended way to install &appname; is starting
from its source code. </para>
- <sect3>
+ <sect2 id="get_source_code">
<title>Getting the source code</title>
<para>You can get the &appname; source code in two ways:
</orderedlist>
</para>
- </sect3>
+ </sect2>
- <sect3 id="build_requirements">
+ <sect2 id="build_requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>
<para>In order to build &appname; from sources you will need some
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>
- <application> <ulink type="http"
- url="http://www.mysql.com">MySQL</ulink> </application>
- </term>
+ <term> &MYSQL; </term>
<term>
<application> <ulink type="http"
url="http://raevnos.pennmush.org/code/ocaml-mysql/">OCaml
</variablelist> </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="database_setup">
+ <title>Database setup</title>
+
+ <para> To fully exploit &appname; indexing and search capabilities you
+ will need a working &MYSQL; database. Detalied instructions on how to do
+ it can be found in the <ulink type="http"
+ url="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/">MySQL documentation</ulink>. Here you
+ can find a quick howto. </para>
+
+ <para> 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
+ <userinput>mysqladmin create matita</userinput>
+ (<emphasis>matita</emphasis> is the default database name, you can
+ change it using the <parameter>db.user</parameter> key of the
+ configuration file). </para>
+
+ <para> Then you need to grant the necessary access permissions to the
+ database user of &appname;, typing <userinput>echo "grant all privileges
+ on matita.* to helm;" | mysql matita</userinput> should do the trick
+ (<emphasis>helm</emphasis> is the default user name used by &appname; to
+ access the database, you can change it using the
+ <parameter>db.user</parameter> key of the configuration file).
+ </para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para> This way you create a database named <emphasis>matita</emphasis>
+ on which anyone claiming to be the <emphasis>helm</emphasis> 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.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="build_instructions">
+ <title>Compiling and installing</title>
+
+ <para> Once you get the source code the installations steps should be
+ quite familiar.</para>
+
+ <para> First of all you need to configure the build process executing
+ <userinput>./configure</userinput>. This will check that all needed
+ tools and library are installed and prepare the sources for compilation
+ and installation. </para>
+
+ <para> Quite a few (optional) arguments may be passed to the
+ <application>configure</application> command line to change build time
+ parameters. They are listed in the table below, together with their
+ default values.
+
+ <table frame="all">
+ <title> <application>configure</application> command line
+ arguments</title>
+ <tgroup cols="3" align="left" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry align="center">Argument</entry>
+ <entry align="center">Default</entry>
+ <entry align="center">Description</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ <userinput>--with-runtime-dir=<replaceable>dir</replaceable></userinput>
+ </entry>
+ <entry> <filename>/usr/local/matita/</filename> </entry>
+ <entry> <para> Runtime base directory where all &appname; stuff
+ (executables, configuration files, standard
+ library, ...) will be installed </para> </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ <userinput>--with-dbhost=<replaceable>host</replaceable></userinput>
+ </entry>
+ <entry> localhost </entry>
+ <entry> <para>Default SQL server hostname. Will be used while
+ building the standard library during the installation and to
+ create the default &appname; configuration. May be changed
+ later in configuration file.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry> <userinput>--enable-debug</userinput></entry>
+ <entry> disabled </entry>
+ <entry> <para> Enable debugging code. Not for the casual user.
+ </para> </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+
+ </para>
+
+ <para> Then you will manage the build and install process using
+ <application><ulink type="http"
+ url="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/">make</ulink></application>
+ as usual. Below are reported the targets you have to invoke in sequence
+ to build and install.
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title><application>make</application> targets</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><userinput>world</userinput></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>builds components needed by &appname; and &appname; itself
+ (in bytecode or native code depending
+ on the availability of the OCaml native code compiler) </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><userinput>install</userinput></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>installs &appname; related tools, standard library and the
+ needed runtime stuff in the proper places on the filesystem.
+ </para>
+ <para>As a part of the installation process the &appname;
+ standard library will be compiled, thus testing that the just
+ built <application>matitac</application> compiler works
+ properly.</para>
+ <para>For this step you will need a working SQL database (for
+ indexing the standard library while you are compiling it). See
+ <ulink type="http" url="#database_setup">Database setup</ulink>
+ for instructions on how to set it up.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- </sect3>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
- </sect2>
-</sect1>
+ </sect1>
+</chapter>