INSTALL.ide

                CoqIde Installation procedure

CoqIde is a graphical interface to perform interactive proofs.
You should be able to do everything you do in coqtop inside CoqIde
excepted dropping to the ML toplevel.


DISTRIBUTION PACKAGES

Your POSIX operating system may already contain precompiled packages
for Coq, including CoqIde, or a ready-to-compile... If the version
provided there suits you, follow the usual procedure for your
operating system.

E.g., on Debian GNU/Linux (or Debian GNU/k*BSD or ...), do:
   aptitude install coqide
On Gentoo GNU/Linux, do:
   USE=ide emerge sci-mathematics/coq

Else, read the rest of this document to compile your own CoqIde.


COMPILATION REQUIREMENTS

- OCaml >= 3.12.1 with native threads support.
- make world must succeed.
- The graphical toolkit GTK+ 2.x. See http://www.gtk.org.
  The official supported version is at least 2.24.x.
  You may still compile CoqIde with older versions and use all features.
  Run

	pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0

  to check your version.
  Do not forget to install the development headers packages.

  On Debian, installing lablgtk2 (see below) will automatically
  install GTK+. (But "aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev" will
  install GTK+ 2.x, should you need to force it for one reason
  or another.)
- The OCaml bindings for GTK+ 2.x, lablgtk2 with support for gtksourceview2.
  You need at least version 2.14.2.

  Your distribution may contain precompiled packages. For example, for
  Debian, run

        aptitude install liblablgtksourceview2-ocaml-dev

  for Mandriva, run

	urpmi ocaml-lablgtk-devel

  If it does not, see http://lablgtk.forge.ocamlcore.org/

  The basic command installing lablgtk2 from the source package is:

        ./configure && make world && make install

   You must have write access to the OCaml standard library path.
   If this fails, read lablgtk-2.14.2/README.


INSTALLATION

0) For optimal performance, OCaml must support native threads (aka pthreads).
   If this not the case, this means that Coq computations will be slow and
   "make ide" will fail. Use "make bin/coqide.byte" instead. To fix this
   problem, just recompile OCaml from source and configure OCaml with:

	"./configure --with-pthreads". 

   In case you install over an existing copy of OCaml, you should better
   empty the OCaml installation directory.

1) Go into your Coq source directory and, as usual, configure with:

	./configure

   This should detect the ability of making CoqIde; check in the
   report printed by configure that ability to build CoqIde is detected.

   Then compile with

	make world

   and install with

	make install

   In case you are upgrading from an old version you may need to run

	make clean-ide

2) You may now run bin/coqide


NOTES

There are three configuration files located in your $(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/coq
dir (defaulting to $HOME/.config/coq).

- coqiderc is generated by coqide itself. It may be edited by hand or
  by using the Preference menu from coqide. It will be generated the first time
  you save your the preferences in Coqide.

- coqide.keys is a standard Gtk2 accelerator dump. You may edit this file 
  to change the default shortcuts for the menus.

Read ide/FAQ for more informations.


TROUBLESHOOTING

- Problem with automatic templates

  Some users may experiment problems with unwanted automatic
  templates while using Coqide. This is due to a change in the
  modifiers keys available through GTK. The straightest way to get
  rid of the problem is to edit by hand your coqiderc (either
  /home/<user>/.config/coq/coqiderc under Linux, or
  C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\.config\coq\coqiderc under Windows)
  and replace any occurence of MOD4 by MOD1.