Windows-installation
Installing ACL2 on Windows
Windows users will probably want to do one of the following to
install and run ACL2 on their systems. Thanks to David Rager for his help
with this topic.
- Use a Virtual Machine platform, such as VMware Player (free for
non-commercial use) or Oracle Virtualbox (free even for commercial
use) to install Linux, and then follow the normal
installation-instructions to install ACL2. As of 2014, at
least a couple of our
power users are very happy with this solution, as it provides
first-class access to utilities relevant to maintaining the ACL2
system and books (like GNU Make and perl).
- Set up Windows
Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on a 64-bit version of Windows 10 (or later,
once available). Within that subsystem, follow the normal installation-instructions for ACL2. See the below section regarding the ACL2
Sedan Windows installation instructions for more info, as that involves
installing the ACL2 Sedan in WSL on Windows.
- Use the ACL2 Sedan (ACL2s) Windows installation instructions — see
ACL2s::ACL2s-installation for more details. This will install ACL2 and
the ACL2s system (including a copy of the Eclipse IDE with ACL2s support) in a
Windows Subsystem for Linux distro. This distro is configured to automatically
open Eclipse when the distro starts up, but one can start the distro without
Eclipse by running wsl -d acl2s -e /bin/bash --noprofile.
You are welcome to obtain
a Windows installer for a previous ACL2 release, which mimics some of
Linux and provides Emacs. Updated ACL2 binaries have been successfully
installed in such an environment.
When installing ACL2 on Windows without a
Unix-like environment, consider at least downloading a utility such as
djtarnt.exe to use with the -x option on gzipped tarfiles.
Gnu tar is preferred, as there have been some problems
with long file names when using at least one other tar program. You may want
to use the -i option, tar xpvfi ..., if you have problems with
other than Gnu tar. You can see if you have Gnu tar by running tar -v.
WARNING:
At least one user experienced CR/LF issues when using WinZIP, but we have
received the suggestion that people untarring with that utility should
probably turn off smart cr/lf conversion.
Here are links to some older documentation topics, possibly out of date,
that provide additional information for installing ACL2 on Windows.
- See windows-installation-gcl for building an executable image on a
Windows system using GCL
- Click here
for some older instructions for building ACL2 on Windows.
- Click here
for yet older instructions for building ACL2 on Windows using mingw.
Subtopics
- Windows-installation-gcl
- Building an executable image on a Windows system using GCL
