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Compiling polymake
This has been tested on Mac OS 10.10 and later.
Get the polymake
sources (either the latest release, or do a checkout of the perpetual beta, see here for links). If you used a tar ball unpack it and switch into the polymake directory. If you use the perpetual beta, switch into the directory trunk. Now issue
./configure
If you do not want to install into /usr/local (or you don't have sudo rights), then add
--prefix=$HOME/polymake-install
to configure, where $HOME/polymake-install can be any directory in your $HOME folder.
If you have never used java before you will get a popup window that asks you to install java. Please do so and rerun the above command.
Once this has finished do
ninja -C build/Opt install
This will take a while. If you have not specified a local directory then you will need to call this with sudo
. You can pass a
-j2
as option to use both cores for compiling. Your computer will probably become unresponsive for a while.