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A Tour of NTL: Obtaining and Installing NTL for UNIX
To obtain the source code and documentation for NTL, download ntl-xxx.tar.gz, placing it a directory, and then, working in this directory, do the following. Here, "xxx" denotes the current version number. Step 1. Extract the source files by executing: % gunzip ntl-xxx.tar.gz % tar xvf ntl-xxx.tar Note that this will unpack everything into a sub-directory ntl-xxx, creating this directory if necessary. Next: % cd ntl-xxx % lsYou should see a file "README", and directories "include", "doc", and "src". The directory "doc" contains all the documentation. The file "doc/tour.html" contains a copy of the on-line documentation. The directory "include" contains all the header files within a subdirectory "include/NTL". The directory "src" contains everything else. Go there now: % cd src Step 2. Run the configuration script. Execute the command % ./configure [ variable=value ]...This configure script generates the file "makefile" and the file "../include/NTL/config.h", based upon the values assigned to the variables on the command line. Here are the most important variables, and their default values.
CC=gcc # The C compiler CXX=g++ # The C++ compiler CFLAGS=-O2 # C complilation flags CXXFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) # C++ compilation flags (by default, same as CFLAGS) PREFIX=/usr/local # Directory in which to install NTL library components NTL_STD_CXX=off # ISO Mode switch NTL_GMP_LIP=off # Switch 'on' to enable the use of GMP as the primary # long integer package NTL_GMP_HACK=off # Switch 'on' to enable the use of GMP as a supplemental # long integer package GMP_PREFIX=none # Directory in which GMP components have been installed Examples.
There are a number of more esoteric configuration variables that can be set. See config.txt for a complete description. Note that all of these configuration options can also be set by editing the two files makefile and ../include/NTL/def_config.h by hand. These files are fairly simple and well documented, and so this is not too hard to do. Note that the file "../include/NTL/def_config.h" contains a backup copy of the original config.h file, and that the file "def_makefile" contains a backup copy of the original makefile file. This command is intended only as a convenience and -- more importantly -- to allow the configuration process to be script driven. This script does not perform any "magic", like finding out what the local C compiler is called, etc. If the defaults are not correct for your platform, you have to set an appropriate variable. Step 3. Execute make. Just type: % make The build process after this point is fully automatic. But here is a description of what happens.
Note that for finer control you can optionally break up this process into the five component steps: % make setup1 % make setup2 % make setup3 % make setup4 % make ntl.a
After NTL is built. Executing make check runs a series of timing and test programs. It is a good idea to run this to see if everything really went well. Executing make install copies a number of files to a directory <prefix> that you specify by passing PREFIX=<prefix> as an argument to configure at configuration time, or as an argument to make install at installation time. The default is /usr/local, so either you need root permissions, or you choose a <prefix> for which you have write permission. The files ../include/NTL/* are copied into <prefix>/include/NTL. The file ntl.a is copied to <prefix>/lib/libntl.a. The files ../doc/* are copied into <prefix>/doc/NTL. You can also "fine tune" the installation procedure further. See the configure documentation for details. Executing make uninstall undoes make install. Executing make clobber essentially undoes make. Make sure you do this if you re-build NTL for a different architecture! Executing make clean will remove object files, but not ntl.a. To rebuild after executing make clean, execute make ntl.a. Assuming you have installed NTL as above, to compile a program foo.c that uses NTL, execute g++ -I<prefix>/include -L<prefix>/lib foo.c -o foo -lntl -lmThis compiles foo.c as a C++ program and creates the binary foo. If you built NTL using GMP, execute: g++ -I<prefix>/include -L<prefix>/lib -L<gmp_prefix>/lib foo.c -lntl -lgmp -lm Of course, if <prefix> and <gmp_prefix> are the same, you do not need to duplicate the -L flags, and if either are standard directories, like /usr/local, you can leave out the corresponding -I and -L flags altogether. This works even if you are not working in the directory in which you built NTL. If you are working in that directory, you can just execute make foo
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