Getting started

Installation

Yacas is available for a variety of platforms. See http://www.yacas.org/getting_started/downloads/ for binary packages and installation instructions.

Installation from sources

Getting sources

Version 1.6.0 can be downloaded from https://github.com/grzegorzmazur/yacas/archive/v1.6.0.zip or https://github.com/grzegorzmazur/yacas/archive/v1.6.0.tar.gz, while the current development version is accessible from https://github.com/grzegorzmazur/yacas/archive/develop.zip.

Compilation

Common build options

ENABLE_CYACAS_CONSOLE
Build text console for the native yacas engine. Enabled by default.
ENABLE_CYACAS_GUI
Build graphical interface for the native yacas engine. Requires Qt 5.5. Enabled by default.
ENABLE_CYACAS_KERNEL
Build native yacas kernel for Jupyter Notebook. Requires Boost, ZeroMQ and zmqpp. Disabled by default.
ENABLE_JYACAS
Build the Java yacas engine and text console for it. Disabled by default.
ENABLE_DOCS
Generate HTML documentation. Disabled by default.
MacOS X

  • Open Terminal window

  • Change directory to the yacas source directory

  • Execute

    mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G Xcode [-Dcommon_option=value ...] ..

  • Open generated project in Xcode and build the Release variant

Microsoft Windows

  • Open Command Prompt window

  • Change directory to the yacas source directory

  • Execute

    mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" [-Dcommon_option=value ...] ..

  • Open generated project in Visual Studio and build the Release variant

Linux

  • Open Terminal window

  • Change directory to the yacas source directory

  • Execute

    mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release [-Dcommon_option=value ...] ..
make

  • To install newly built binaries execute make install

Java
  • Open Terminal or Command Prompt window
  • Change directory to the yacas source directory
  • Execute ant jar
yacas-online

  • build yacas using emscripten

    mkdir build_js
cd build_js
cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT>/cmake/Modules/Platform/Emscripten.cmake \
-DENABLE_CYACAS_GUI=No -DENABLE_CYACAS_KERNEL=No -DENABLE_JYACAS=No -DENABLE_DOCS=No -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cd ..

    where <EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT> stands for the Emscripten root directory

  • copy

    • build_js/cyacas/yacas/yacas.js
    • build_js/cyacas/yacas/yacas.js.mem
    • cyacas/yacas-gui/resources/yacas-online.html
    • cyacas/yacas-gui/resources/jquery/
    • cyacas/yacas-gui/resources/mathbar/
    • cyacas/yacas-gui/resources/plot3d/
    • cyacas/yacas-gui/resources/yagy_ui/

    to the installation directory