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4 IMPORTANT NOTE: This file describes the *new* installation procedure
5 using various scripts that are still supposed beta for Isabelle94-8.
6 If you encounter any problems, you may want to consider compiling
7 Isabelle the olden way, as described in README.old.
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12 Isabelle installation notes
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18 After unpacking the Isabelle distribution archive (using tar and gzip)
19 you are left with some directory IsabelleYY-X. You may install this
20 anywhere, but please just *not* as ~/isabelle!!!
22 The place where you put the contents of IsabelleYY-X will be referred
23 to as [ISABELLE_HOME] subsequently.
29 There are some minor adaptions to be made of the Isabelle distribution
30 to your system environment. Simply type:
36 ML system settings and compilation
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39 Before actual compilation you have to tell Isabelle about your
40 Standard ML system. These settings reside in ./etc/settings, which
41 may be also overridden by ~/isabelle/etc/settings. There are already
42 various sample configurations in ./etc/settings commented out.
44 To build the core Isabelle/Pure and the default object-logic, just
49 More object-logics can be made similarly:
57 Provided that compilation was successful, you can now run something
60 [ISABELLE_HOME]/bin/isabelle FOL
62 This starts an interactive Isabelle session within your current text
63 terminal. You may want to put [ISABELLE_HOME]/bin into your shell's
64 search PATH. Please do *not* copy (or link) the Isabelle scripts
65 somewhere else -- or they just won't work!