+ </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 below, together with their
+ default values: </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title> <application>configure</application> command line
+ arguments</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <userinput>--with-runtime-dir=<replaceable>dir</replaceable></userinput>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ (<emphasis>Default:</emphasis>
+ <filename>/usr/local/matita</filename>) Runtime base directory
+ where all &appname; stuff (executables, configuration files,
+ standard library, ...) will be installed
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <userinput>--with-dbhost=<replaceable>host</replaceable></userinput>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ (<emphasis>Default:</emphasis> localhost) 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>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <userinput>--enable-debug</userinput>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ (<emphasis>Default:</emphasis> disabled) Enable debugging code.
+ Not for the casual user.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <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:
+ </para>
+
+ <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>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ </sect1>