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LinBox/Maple Interface - version 1.0 2-3-2003 1. What is it: This is an interface between the LinBox library of functions and utilities for the Maple computer algebra system. It allows you to call LinBox functions from a Maple session. It is currently under development by Rich Seagraves at the University of Delaware. Any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome. The package is made up of a small library that wraps LinBox functions, and a Maple module called LinBox that contains all procedures and external calling definitions. 2. Requirements: The interface requires the following packges: I. Maple v6.0 or greater II. LinBox III. GMP v3.2 or greater (for LinBox) IV. unix make utility V. A UNIX other than Solaris (see "But I have Solaris you insensitive CLOD!!!!" below). It is recommended you have the following I. Maple v7.0 or later II. g++ 3.0 or later (compiler on which this library was tested). III. GNU make utility (gmake). 3. Availability: The interface is currently distributed as part of the LinBox package, available through CVS. Please goto http://www.linalg.org/developer.html for information about getting the latest version of LinBox. (Note - at present, the Maple interface is not available through the latest LinBox beta release, v0.3b. It should be available when the next beta release of LinBox comes out. Stay on the look-out and keep your fingers crossed!) The interface is available in the interfaces/maple directory of the LinBox distribution. 4. But I have Solaris you insensitive CLOD!!!! At the moment, the package has been tested under Linux and theoretically will work on other Unix variant systems. Both LinBox and this interface has had some trouble building on Solaris, and at present Solaris doesnot support a build feature that this interface needs. If someone has had extensive experience with Solaris and would like to help out with this, I'd be more than happy toi recieve that help. 5. Installation: The interface consists of a shared object file and a plain text script defining a module called LinBox. To create the Maple interface to LinBox, re-run LinBox's configure script with the following additional arguements: --with-maple-prefix=MPFX --enable-shared where MPFX is the directory of a working maple installation. Then rebuild LinBox with make; make install and the interface will be built in LinBox's lib/ directory. 6. Usage: The build system will compile a shared object generate is called lbmaple.mpl. In Maple, type 'read("/directory/you/install/to/lib/lbmaple.mpl");' (where /directory/you/install/to is LinBox's installation path) to get the module. Also, in the interfaces/maple directory in LinBox is a file called demonstration.mws which contains a demonstrational maple worksheet. 7. Wow, this interface is horrible. What's wrong with you? :-) If you really think it's that bad, why not email me and show me how it's done right? I always love help. 8. Contact You can contact the author, Rich Seagraves, at <seagrave@cis.udel.edu>