JuliaInterface

The GAP 4 package `JuliaInterface'

JuliaInterface provides an interface to the Julia interpreter.

General Disclaimer

All code in this repository is preliminary work.

It comes with absolutely no warranty and will most likely have errors. If you use it for computations, please check the correctness of the result very carefully.

Also, everything in this repository might change in the future, so currently any update can break the code you wrote upon functionality from packages in this repository.

This software is licensed under the LGPL, version 3, or any later version.

Installation

Requirements

• Julia 1.1 or higher, compiled in <path_to_julia>
• GAP 4.10 or higher, compiled in <path_to_gaproot>
• Standard building tools, such as gcc, autotools, libtools, automake, and make. If you were able to build GAP and Julia from their git repositories, JuliaInterface can be built.

Installation

General instructions

• Clone or download this repository into the GAP package folder <gap_package_folder>, which is usually <path_to_gaproot>/pkg. You can download the package via

  git clone https://github.com/oscar-system/GAP.jl <path_to_gaproot>/pkg/GAP.jl
  

• Configure and compile JuliaInterface via

  cd <path_to_gaproot>/pkg/GAPJulia/JuliaInterface
  ./configure <path_to_gaproot>
  make
  

Notes for Mac OS X

It is possible to link JuliaInterface against the official Julia binary which one can download from https://julialang.org/downloads/. To do so, run configure as follows:

./configure --with-julia=/PATH/TO/Julia*.app/Contents/Resources/julia

Usage

Load the JuliaInterface package via

LoadPackage( "JuliaInterface" );

For further details, please consult the package manual.