Note: the program has been superseded by yacas-gui, which is an integral part of yacas

This repository if frozen. No changes to it will be made nor any pull requests or bug reports accepted.

Yagy, Yet Another GUI for Yacas, Yet Another Computer Algebra System

Compilation instructions

Prerequisites

1. yacas version 1.4.0
   • available from https://github.com/grzegorzmazur/yacas/releases/tag/v1.4.0
2. Qt
   • available from http://qt-project.org/downloads
   • tested on the 5.4.2 version

Mac OS X

1. in the YAGY.pro file set the YACAS_PREFIX variable to point to a folder with the yacas framework
2. create an XCode project:

   • in Terminal go to the folder containing YAGY.pro and run the command:

     $$PATH_TO_QT_BIN_FOLDER$$/qmake -spec macx-xcode

   • in the same folder YAGY.xcodeproj is created
3. open YAGY.xcodeproj and update icons:
   • display YAGY target properties (click on YAGY in the Project Navigator)
   • go to the App Icons section and click on Use Asset Catalog and then confirm migration.
4. Run the YAGY target to compile and run app from the build folder (./Debug by default)
   • default configuration is Debug. To change to Release edit the YAGY scheme.

5. To create a distributable application with Qt frameworks included in the bundle run the following command:

   $$PATH_TO_QT_BIN_FOLDER$$/macdeployqt $$PATH_YAGY_BUILD_FOLDER$$/YAGY.app 

   • Ignore ERROR: no file at "/opt/local/lib/mysql55/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib"
   • Option -dmg can be added to create a dmg image.

Windows

1. To compile Yagy Yacas (yacas-1.4.0-win64.exe) has to be installed
   • if Yacas is compiled from sources the Release x64 configuration should be used
2. In the CMakeList.txt set the YACAS_PREFIX variable to point to the Yacas installation folder
   • it’s C:/Program Files/yacas by default
3. Generate Microsoft Visual Studio project using CMake
   • set configuration to Visual Studion 12 2013 Win64
4. Build the ALL_BUILD solution to build the Yagy application
5. Build the PACKAGE solution to create an installation package

Linux

1. To compile Yagy, Yacas (yacas_1.4.0-1_amd64.deb) has to be installed
2. In the CMakeList.txt set the YACAS_PREFIX variable to point to the Yacas installation folder
   • it’s /usr by default
3. Generate Makefile using CMake
4. Build executable using the make command
5. Either install using make install or build package using make package and install it