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 1.7.0 can be downloaded from https://github.com/grzegorzmazur/yacas/archive/v1.7.0.zip or https://github.com/grzegorzmazur/yacas/archive/v1.7.0.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/yacas_gui/

    to the installation directory