Singular on FreeBSD

Michi · Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:45 pm

Dear Singular Folks,

I am looking forward using Singular on FreeBSD. It seems that Singular used to support FreeBSD up to release 5.0 (for FreeBSD), time has flown ...

I had a wild try compiling Singular on FreeBSD, and encountered trouble with third party libraries shipped with Singular.

What is the status of FreeBSD support in current Singular developpement?

Re: status of Singular on FreeBSD

hannes · Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:04 pm

We do not access to newer freebsd systems -
so we cannot try it.
But Singular sources rely on having the gcc as compiler,
we try not to use OS specific stuff.
It compiles without problems on:
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0 i386
gcc: 3.4.5

Hans Schoenemann, Singular team

Re: Singular on FreeBSD

hannes · Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:35 am

Tests on FreeBSD 6.3:
- you need to install flex, perl, gmake, libgmp4 (from the ports collection)
I got mysterious build failures due to a missing perl
- if the build fails in the ntl subdirectory, try:
cd ntl
make clean
./config.status
cd src
make setup1 && make setup2 && make setup3 && make setup4 && make ntl.a
and try again (gmake install from the top level)