How to install a CVS repository version of Isabelle.
The following assumes that you have successfully checked out Isabelle
from CVS into a directory $ISABELLE (by default 'isabelle')
The directory structure of the CVS is different from the
distribution. The root directory $ISABELLE is the src
subdirectory in the distribution. The 'normal' distribution
directories are found in $ISABELLE/Distribution.
To work directly on a working copy of the repository, do the following:
Change directory to "$ISABELLE/Distribution/bin" and execute:
./isatool install -p ~/bin
This will install Isabelle executables in ~/bin. Then issue in
directory "$ISABELLE/Distribution"
ln -s .. src
This tells the Isabelle binaries where to find the theories.
In $ISABELLE/Distribution/contrib install Poly/ML and
Proof General. Download the corresponding packages from
http://isabelle.in.tum.de/dist/ and unpack them in
$ISABELLE/Distribution/contrib. If you have already installed them
elsewhere, it is sufficient to create a symbolic link in contrib to
the main Poly/ML and ProofGeneral directories. The links should be
called 'polyml' and 'ProofGeneral'.
Building logic images with browser info generation (which is the
default setting) requires a compiled version of the browser JVM
application. Change to the directory
"$ISABELLE/Distribution/lib/browser" and issue make; this requires
Java JDK 1.4 or greater.
Now you can build images by going to corresponding folders and issuing:
isatool make
(for instance, in "$ISABELLE/HOL" in order to make HOL). This
will create the directory "~/isabelle" (if not already present).
After setting up the local copy of Isabelle, changes in the repository
can be imported by:
cvs update -d -P
(-d causes cvs to create directories that have appeared in the
repository since the last update, -P causes directories that have been
removed from the repository to be pruned).
Default Isabelle settings:
$ISABELLE_HOME is the directory "isabelle/Distribution" from above.
$ISABELLE_HOME_USER is the directory "~/isabelle".
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