CoqIde Installation procedure CoqIde is a graphical interface to perform interactive proofs. You should be able to do everything you do in coqtop inside CoqIde excepted dropping to the ML toplevel. DISTRIBUTION PACKAGES Your POSIX operating system may already contain precompiled packages for Coq, including CoqIde, or a ready-to-compile... If the version provided there suits you, follow the usual procedure for your operating system. E.g., on Debian GNU/Linux (or Debian GNU/k*BSD or ...), do: aptitude install coqide On Gentoo GNU/Linux, do: USE=ide emerge sci-mathematics/coq Else, read the rest of this document to compile your own CoqIde. COMPILATION REQUIREMENTS - OCaml >= 4.02.1 with native threads support. - make world must succeed. - The graphical toolkit GTK+ 2.x. See http://www.gtk.org. The official supported version is at least 2.24.x. You may still compile CoqIde with older versions and use all features. Run pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0 to check your version. Do not forget to install the development headers packages. On Debian, installing lablgtk2 (see below) will automatically install GTK+. (But "aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev" will install GTK+ 2.x, should you need to force it for one reason or another.) - The OCaml bindings for GTK+ 2.x, lablgtk2 with support for gtksourceview2. You need at least version 2.18.3. Your distribution may contain precompiled packages. For example, for Debian, run aptitude install liblablgtksourceview2-ocaml-dev for Mandriva, run urpmi ocaml-lablgtk-devel If it does not, see http://lablgtk.forge.ocamlcore.org/ The basic command installing lablgtk2 from the source package is: ./configure && make world && make install You must have write access to the OCaml standard library path. If this fails, read the README. INSTALLATION 0) For optimal performance, OCaml must support native threads (aka pthreads). If this not the case, this means that Coq computations will be slow and "make ide" will fail. Use "make bin/coqide.byte" instead. To fix this problem, just recompile OCaml from source and configure OCaml with: "./configure --with-pthreads". In case you install over an existing copy of OCaml, you should better empty the OCaml installation directory. 1) Go into your Coq source directory and, as usual, configure with: ./configure This should detect the ability of making CoqIde; check in the report printed by configure that ability to build CoqIde is detected. Then compile with make world and install with make install In case you are upgrading from an old version you may need to run make clean-ide 2) You may now run bin/coqide NOTES There are three configuration files located in your $(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/coq dir (defaulting to $HOME/.config/coq). - coqiderc is generated by coqide itself. It may be edited by hand or by using the Preference menu from coqide. It will be generated the first time you save your the preferences in Coqide. - coqide.keys is a standard Gtk2 accelerator dump. You may edit this file to change the default shortcuts for the menus. Read ide/FAQ for more informations. TROUBLESHOOTING - Problem with automatic templates Some users may experiment problems with unwanted automatic templates while using Coqide. This is due to a change in the modifiers keys available through GTK. The straightest way to get rid of the problem is to edit by hand your coqiderc (either /home//.config/coq/coqiderc under Linux, or C:\Documents and Settings\\.config\coq\coqiderc under Windows) and replace any occurrence of MOD4 by MOD1.