Instructions for installing Proof General ========================================= Proof General runs on a variety of platforms and with a variety of Emacs versions; see notes below for particular hints. Please send us additional hints for alternative platforms/Emacsen not mentioned. To install, unpack the distribution somewhere. It will create a top-level directory containing Proof General, called Proof-General-. Put this line in your .emacs file: (load-file "/generic/proof-site.el") Where is replaced by the full path name to Proof-General-. If you prefer not to edit .emacs, you can use the script in bin/proofgeneral to launch Emacs with Proof General loaded. The command above will set the Emacs load path and add auto-loads for proof assistants, for example, visiting a file ending in .v will start Coq Proof General, and a file ending in .thy will start Isabelle/Isar Proof General. See the manual for a full list of file extensions and proof assistants, and the note below for how to disable those you don't need. In case of difficulty, please check the documentation in doc/, the notes below, the README file for each prover, and the file BUGS. If none of these files help, then contact us via the address below. Proof General maintainer LFCS, Division Of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh. http://www.proofgeneral.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Detailed installation Notes for Proof General ============================================= RPM package. ------------ If you have the RPM file, this is the line you should add to your .emacs file: (load-file "/usr/share/emacs/ProofGeneral/generic/proof-site.el") Running on Windows ------------------ We recommend XEmacs compiled for Windows, see http://www.xemacs.org. Some Isabelle users have reported better operation with cygwin XEmacs. Unpack the Proof General tar or zip file, and rename the folder to "ProofGeneral" to remove the version number. Put a line like this: (load-file "c:\\ProofGeneral\\generic\\proof-site.el") into .emacs. You should put .emacs in value of HOME if you set that, or else in directory you installled XEmacs in, e.g. c:\Program Files\XEmacs\.emacs Dependency on Other Emacs Packages ---------------------------------- Proof General relies on several other Emacs packages, which are probably already supplied with your version of Emacs. If not, you will need to find them. XEmacs is sometimes unbundled, so you may need to select packages (or package groups) specially. These are the packages that you need to use Proof General: ESSENTIAL: * cl-macs * comint * custom * font-lock OPTIONAL: * outline * func-menu * X Symbol Byte Compilation. ----------------- Compilation of the Emacs lisp files improves efficiency but can sometimes cause compatibility problems. It is not properly supported in this release, because testing for these compatibility problems takes too much time. If you want to experiment nonetheless, you can compile Proof General by typing 'make' in the directory where you installed it. This will result in lots of warnings and error messages most of which can be ignored. Some files cannot be properly byte-compiled at the moment because they contain settings which depend on run-time; these will be deleted by the Makefile. Use 'make clean' to remove all .elc files in case of problems. Check the Makefile sets EMACS to your Emacs executable. Site-wide Installation ---------------------- If you are installing Proof General site-wide, you can put the components in the standard directories of the filesystem if you prefer, providing the variables in proof-site.el are adjusted accordingly. Make sure that the generic and assistant-specific elisp files are kept in subdirectories of `proof-home-directory' so that the autoload directory calculations are correct. To save every user needing the line in their .emacs file, you can put that into a site-wide file like default.el. Read the Emacs manual for details. Removing support for unwanted provers ------------------------------------- You cannot run more than one instance of Proof General at a time in the same Emacs process: e.g. if you're using Coq, you won't be able to run LEGO scripts. If there are some assistants supported that you never want to use, you can remove them from the variable `proof-assistants' to prevent Proof General autoloading for files with particular extensions. This may be useful if you want to use other modes for those files, for example, you may want sml-mode for .ML files or Verilog mode for .v files. The easiest way to do this (and other customization of Proof General) is via the Customize mechanism, see the menu: Options -> Customize -> Emacs -> External -> Proof General or, after loading Proof General, in a proof script buffer Proof-General -> Customize You may need extra customization depending on the proof assistant (for example, the name of the proof assistant binary). See the menu Proof-General -> Customize -> and the manual for more details. $Id$