Yaglom (MoebInv-GUI)

This application provides a GUI for the MoebInv library http://moebinv.sourceforge.net/ for symbolic, numeric and graphical manipulations in non-Euclidean geometry.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Installation
• Step-by-step installation on Mac

Introduction

The MoebInv library allows manipulations in non-Euclidean geometry. This application is a GUI for use with the MoebInv library.

Installation

If all pre-requisites are already installed it shall be enough to compile the GUI by typing the command make at the command prompt of the top-level folder containing the distribution.

Prerequisites

• CLN: https://www.ginac.de/CLN/
• GiNaC: https://ginac.de/
• Qt5/Qt6 development files: https://doc.qt.io/
• MoebInv: https://sourceforge.net/projects/moebinv/

First three items can be already pre-packaged for your system, otherwise use provided links. MoebInv library is distributed only in sources at the moment.

Step-by-step installation on Mac

1. Install Homebrew.

Paste this into a terminal:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

You may need to agree to the installation of Xcode.

2. Make sure that your mac has a GCC version greater than 4.4.

You can do this by typing gcc --version

If the version is lower, then execute something like that:
brew install https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/master/gcc.rb rm -v /usr/bin/{cc,gcc,c++,g++} ln -sv /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.x /usr/bin/cc ln -sv /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.x /usr/bin/gcc ln -sv /usr/local/bin/c++-4.x /usr/bin/c++ ln -sv /usr/local/bin/g++-4.x /usr/bin/g++

3. Install GiNaC and Cmake using homebrew:
brew install ginac brew install cmake

4. Install MoebInv

• Download the latest version of MoebInv here: https://sourceforge.net/p/moebinv/
• Navigate to the src file in a terminal

• Type make

• Make sure yaglom can find the library files by either:

  • Placing figure.h and cycle.h in /usr/local/include/moebinv and placing libfigure.so and libcycle.so in /usr/local/lib
  • Or by placing the header files in ./lib/moebinv and libraries
    in./lib folders in the downloaded moebinv-gui-code directory.

5. Install Qt using home brew:
brew install qt

6. Install Yaglom
- clone the yaglom repository from https://git.code.sf.net/p/moebinv/gui/code by executing:
git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/moebinv/gui/code moebinv-gui-code
- open a terminal in this directory or directly after executing the clone command execute cd moebinv-gui-code
- build the make file by executing qmake
- compile the application by executing make
- install the documentation by running make install
- run the application by execting ./yaglom

or

• run the .sh script mac-install.sh