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= sage-4.8 =

[[#sage-5.0|See below for sage-5.0]] (which is currently still in development).

== Supported compilers ==
A minimum of gcc 4.0.1 is needed to build Sage, though later releases are generally preferable.
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Building Sage on Solaris or OpenSolaris is a little tricky, but Sage works on those platforms. Ask for help on [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support|[email protected]]] if you have problems. Building Sage on Solaris or !OpenSolaris is a little tricky, but Sage works on those platforms. Ask for help on [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support|[email protected]]] if you have problems.
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 * Fully supported
 * Expected to work
 * Probably will not work, but porting is ongoing		  * 1) Fully supported - Sage is ALWAYS checked on ALL these platforms before a release is made
 * 2) Expected to work - Sage will probably work, but it is not always tested.
 * 3) Probably will not work - Porting work may be ongoing.
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=== Fully supported - Sage is ALWAYS check on ALL these platforms BEFORE a release is made ===
Sage is fully supported on the following platforms. This means '''every''' single release of Sage is '''always''' tested on these platforms. The testing is performed in an automated way using Buildbot. (You can see what systems we use at http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves ) Failure to build on one of these platforms will stop a release of Sage being made. Usually all Sage's self-tests (doc-tests) will pass, though one or two failures on one or two platforms may occur, and will be documented in an [[errata|errata page]]. Any failures to either build or pass tests are considered very serious bugs. 		=== Fully supported - Sage is ALWAYS checked on ALL these platforms before a release is made ===
Sage is fully supported on the following platforms. This means '''every''' single release of Sage is '''always''' tested on '''all''' these platforms. The testing is performed in an automated way using Buildbot. (You can see what systems we use at http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves) Failure to build on one of these platforms will stop a release of Sage being made. Usually all Sage's self-tests (doc-tests) will pass, though one or two failures on one or two platforms may occur, and will be documented in an [[errata|errata page]]. Any failures to either build or pass tests are considered very serious bugs.
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If you wish to set up a server primarily or exclusively for using Sage, you would be advised to install one of these operating systems, rather than one on which Sage is not regularly tested. If you wish to set up a server primarily or exclusively for using Sage, you would be advised to install one of these operating systems, rather than one on which Sage is not regularly tested. You should not assume that Sage will necessarily work on the latest release of these systems, though it usually will.
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 * You need at least 2 GB of RAM (you may get away with less, but you can not be sure. Sage has been built on systems with less than 2 GB RAM)
 * You need at least 2.5 GB of free disk space.		  * It is recommended to have at least 2 GB of RAM (you may get away with less, but you can not be sure). In order to run all doctests, Sage needs up to 2.2 GB of memory.
  * On some very old Mac machines it is possible to build and run tests with as little as .5 GB, with additional swap, because we do not have to build ATLAS on that platform - but there are no guarantees.
 * You need at least 3 GB of free disk space.
 * gcc >= 4.0.1.
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====== Linux ======

 * Fedora 13 on x86 (64-bit). Tested on one or more of [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/eno-1|eno]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/flavius-1|flavius]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/lena-1|lena]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/sextus-1|sextus]] or [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/taurus-1|taurus]]
 * openSUSE 11.1 on x86 (64-bit) Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/iras-1|iras]]		 ==== Linux ====

 * Fedora 16 on x86 (64-bit). Tested on one or more of [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/eno-1|eno]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/flavius-1|flavius]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/lena-1|lena]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/sextus-1|sextus]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/taurus-1|taurus]]
 * Fedora 15 on i686 (32-bit). Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/cicero-1|cicero]]
 * SUSE 10 SP1 on Itanium (64-bit) Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/iras-1|iras]]
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 * Redhat 5.6 (Tikanga) on x86 (64-bit). Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/rosemary-1|rosemary]]
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 * Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS on x86 (64-bit). Tested on  [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/redhawk-1|redhawk]]

====== Mac OS X ======
 * OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) 64-bit. Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/bsd-1|bsd]]

====== OpenSolaris ======		  * Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS on x86 (64-bit). Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/redhawk-1|redhawk]]
 * Debian 6.0.4 on x86 (64-bit). Tested at NTU

==== Mac OS X ====
 * OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on PPC. There is one known problem with the Maxima interface, this will be fixed in sage-5.0, see [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9361|Trac #9361]].
 * OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) 64-bit, with XCode 3 (XCode 4.0.1 is known to produce an executable that does not work). Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/bsd-1|bsd]]

==== OpenSolaris x86 32-bit ====
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====== Solaris ======
 * Solaris 10 update 1 on SPARC processors (32-bit only) Tested on one or more of [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/mark-1|mark]] or [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/mark2-1|mark2]]
 * Solaris 10 update 5 on x86 processors (32-bit only) Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/fulvia-1|fulvia]]
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In addition to the above systems where Sage will work, Sage will probably work on the following operating systems, though we can't guarantee that, as it is impractical to test each Sage release on all these systems. Failure to build on these systems will be considered a bug, but we may not have the resources to solve any problems. In addition to the above systems where Sage will work, Sage will probably work on the following operating systems, though we can't guarantee that, as it is impractical to test each Sage release on all these systems. Failure to build on these systems will be considered a bug, but we may not have the resources to solve any problems. Sage developers should be able to offer assistance to anyone who can't get Sage to work properly on one of these platforms, but since they might not necessarily have access to the platform, that may be difficult.
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====== Linux ====== ==== Linux ====
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 * Fedora 11, 12 or (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
 * Gentoo. Gentoo binaries are regularly available at ???
 * openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3 are known not to work currently, though these issues should be fixed for Sage 4.6. 		 * Fedora 11 or 12 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
 * Gentoo. The Sage on Gentoo project (http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo) is aimed at properly integrating Sage to the Gentoo system, so is quite different to how Sage builds on all other platforms. This is designed for end users, not developers. However, a recent Sage should build from the source on Gentoo, but that would not be the normal way to use Sage on Gentoo.
 * openSUSE 12.1 on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
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 * Ubuntu 8 or later.     * Ubuntu 8 or later.
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====== Solaris ======
 * Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on SPARC processors in 32-bit mode. (Note Solaris 10 update 1 is fully supported)
 * Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on x86 processors in 32-bit mode. (Note Solaris 10 update 5 is fully supported)

====== Mac OS X ======
 * OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard). Note that OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is fully supported.

====== Microsoft Windows ======
 * VMware images can be downloaded from http://www.sagemath.org/download-windows.html These should be reliable, though we do not test these prior to releasing Sage. 		 ==== Mac OS X ====
 * OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard), both PPC and Intel chips. Note that 10.4 PPC is fully supported.

==== Solaris ====
 * Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on SPARC processors in 32-bit mode.
 * Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on x86 processors in 32-bit mode.
 * Solaris 10 on x86 processors in 32-bit mode.
 * Solaris 11 Express on x86 (32-bit has been tested).
 * Solaris 11 Express on SPARC (Never tested).

==== Microsoft Windows ====
 * VirtualBox images can be downloaded from http://www.sagemath.org/download-windows.html These should be reliable, though we do not test these prior to releasing Sage.
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===== AIX =====
 * A little work has been done on an AIX port. This can be followed at the [[AIX_port| AIX port page]]. It is not currently clear if this will ever be completed, as there is not a significant effort taking place. If you wish to help, that would be appreciated. If you do not have access to AIX hardware, [[http://www.metamodul.com/|Metamodul]] will provide free public access for open-source development. A couple of Sage developers have used this. The AIX port can be followed at [[AIX_port|The AIX port page]] Trac ticket #9999

====== FreeBSD ======
 * FreeBSD 8.1 (Substantial work has been done on this, and a port during 2010 is highly likely)		 ==== AIX ====
 * A little work has been done on an AIX port. This can be followed at the [[AIX| AIX port page]]. It is not currently clear if this will ever be completed, as there is not a significant effort taking place. If you wish to help, that would be appreciated. If you do not have access to AIX hardware, [[http://www.metamodul.com/|Metamodul]] will provide free public access for open-source development. A couple of Sage developers have used this. Trac ticket [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9999|Trac #9999]] has the latest list of known issues.

==== FreeBSD ====
 * FreeBSD 8.1 (Substantial work has been done on this)
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===== Linux ===== ==== Linux (ARM, Mips64 and PPC64 processors) ====
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 * PPC64 The 64-bit PowerPC port can be followed at [[linuxPPC64|the linux PPC64 port page]]
 * Fedora 13 (32-bit). A buildbot for this [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/cicero-1|cicero]] has never had a successful build. We hope to resolve this.

===== HP-UX =====		  * PPC64 The 64-bit PowerPC port can be followed at [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11705|Trac #11705]]

==== HP-UX ====
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===== OpenSolaris =====
 * !OpenSolaris 06/2009 on x86 in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this. A port can be expected in 2010).

===== Solaris =====
 * Solaris 10 on x86 processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this. A port can be expected in 2010).
 * Solaris 10 on SPARC processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this. A port can be expected in 2010).

More information about the status of the Solaris ports can be found on the [[solaris|Solaris]] page of the Sage Wiki. There's also some notes about installing [[solaris-binaries|Solaris binaries]] and

===== Microsoft Windows =====
 * Microsoft Windows using Cygwin (Substantial work has been done on this. A port can be expected in 2010). More information about the status of the Cygwin port can be found at [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort ]] and on the [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-windows sage-windows]] mailing list.		 ==== Microsoft Windows ====
 * Microsoft Windows using Cygwin (Substantial work has been done on this). More information about the status of the Cygwin port can be found at [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort ]] and on the [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-windows sage-windows]] mailing list.
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==== OpenSolaris 64-bit ====
 * !OpenSolaris 06/2009 on x86 in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).

==== Solaris 10 64-bit ====
 * Solaris 10 on x86 processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).
 * Solaris 10 on SPARC processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).

More information about the status of the Solaris ports can be found on the [[solaris|Solaris]] page of the Sage Wiki. There's also some notes about installing [[solaris-binaries|Solaris binaries]]

==== Mac OS X ====
 * XCode 4.0.1 is known to produce a Sage executable that segfaults. This needs work. Even more work needs to be done if one wants to use Clang-based compilers that come with it: they cannot even build the whole of Sage.
 * See [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11881|Trac #11881]] for Sage on OS X 10.7 (Lion).

----
= sage-5.0 supported platforms =

If you try to build Sage on most Linux or OS X systems, you should have few if any problems and if there are problems, plenty of people will be able to help you. Just ask on [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support|[email protected]]] But some distributions are better supported than others - see below for details.

Building Sage on Solaris or !OpenSolaris is a little tricky, but Sage works on those platforms. Ask for help on [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support|[email protected]]] if you have problems.

If you try to build Sage on something more exotic, you may find a Sage developer able to help you, but you can't be sure.

Below are listed the supported platforms, along with the level of support given. There are 4 levels of support.

 1. [[#Fully_supported|Fully supported]] - Sage is ALWAYS checked on ALL these platforms before a release is made.
 2. [[#Expected_to_work|Expected to work]] - Sage will probably work, but it is not always tested.
 3. [[#Almost_works|Almost works]] - Sage builds on these platforms, but there are some known issues. However, most functionality of Sage should still work.
 4. [[#Probably_will_not_work|Probably will not work]] - Porting work may be ongoing.

Specific hardware and software for these levels of support are given below.

== Fully supported ==
Sage is fully supported on the following platforms. This means '''every''' single release of Sage is '''always''' tested on '''all''' these platforms. The testing is performed in an automated way using Buildbot. (You can see what systems we use at http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves) Failure to build on one of these platforms will stop a release of Sage being made. Usually all Sage's self-tests (doc-tests) will pass, though one or two failures on one or two platforms may occur, and will be documented in an [[errata|errata page]]. Any failures to either build or pass tests are considered very serious bugs.

Also, we will always make binaries available for these platforms.

If you wish to set up a server primarily or exclusively for using Sage, you would be advised to install one of these operating systems, rather than one on which Sage is not regularly tested. You should not assume that Sage will necessarily work on the latest release of these systems, though it usually will.

To aid Sage developers, the hosts on which Sage is fully supported are listed, with a link to the Buildbot page.

There are several requirements for Sage to work successfully on these fully supported platforms.

 * A full development system must be installed - a minimal install will probably not work if you wish to build from source.
 * The system must not have been mis-configured. Unfortunately, it is not unusual for Sage to fail to build on systems where someone has mis-configured the system. A fresh install of the operating system is not necessary, but any changes made since the installation must have been performed properly.
 * It is recommended to have at least 2 GB of RAM (you may get away with less, but you can not be sure). In order to run all doctests, Sage needs up to 2.2 GB of memory. Building the documentation needs 2.5 GB of memory.
 * You need at least 3 GB of free disk space.
 * You need to have the [[http://sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html|prerequisites]] for building Sage.
 * All instructions must be followed.

=== Linux ===

 * Fedora 16 on x86 (64-bit). Tested on one or more of [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/eno-1|eno]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/flavius-1|flavius]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/lena-1|lena]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/sextus-1|sextus]], [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/taurus-1|taurus]]
 * Fedora 16 on i686 (32-bit). Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/cicero-1|cicero]]
 * SUSE 10 SP1 on Itanium (64-bit) Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/iras-1|iras]]
 * Redhat 5.3 on Intel Itanium (64-bit). Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/cleo-1|cleo]]
 * Redhat 5.6 (Tikanga) on x86 (64-bit). Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/rosemary-1|rosemary]]
 * Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS on x86 (64-bit). Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/sage-1|sage]]
 * Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS on x86 (64-bit). Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/redhawk-1|redhawk]]
 * Ubuntu 12.04 on x86 (32-bit). Make sure that the ''dpkg-dev'' package is installed. Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/arando-1|arando]]

=== Mac OS X ===
 * OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on PPC. Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/moufang-1|moufang]]
 * OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) 64-bit, with XCode 3. Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/bsd-1|bsd]]

=== OpenSolaris x86 32-bit ===
 * 06/2009 updated to build 134 on x86 (32-bit only), with gcc as well as the Sun compiler. Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/hawk-1|hawk]]

== Expected to work ==
In addition to the above systems where Sage will work, Sage will probably work on the following operating systems, though we can't guarantee that, as it is impractical to test each Sage release on all these systems. Failure to build on these systems will be considered a bug, but we may not have the resources to solve any problems. Sage developers should be able to offer assistance to anyone who can't get Sage to work properly on one of these platforms, but since they might not necessarily have access to the platform, that may be difficult.

If anyone is able to test on these systems, we would particularly appreciate reports of failures, since Sage really should work on these systems. We expect to set up an automated system where people can mail successful build reports, and to generate a web page showing successful builds. But currently neither are in place.

=== Linux ===
 * Arch on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
 * CentOS on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
 * Debian 5.0 or 6.0 on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
 * Fedora 11 or later (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
 * Gentoo. The Sage on Gentoo project (http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo) is aimed at properly integrating Sage to the Gentoo system, so is quite different to how Sage builds on all other platforms. This is designed for end users, not developers. However, a recent Sage should build from source on Gentoo.
 * openSUSE 12.1 on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.3 or later.
 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 or later on Intel Itanium processors
 * Ubuntu 8 or later. For Ubuntu 12.04, make sure the ''dpkg-dev'' package is installed.

Other Linux distributions, such as Slackware are never tested, so may or may not work.

=== Mac OS X ===
 * OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), both PPC and Intel chips. Note that 10.4 PPC is fully supported.
 * OS X 10.7 (Lion), provided you use a sufficiently recent version of XCode.

=== Solaris ===
 * Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on SPARC processors in 32-bit mode.
 * Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on x86 processors in 32-bit mode.
 * Solaris 10 on x86 processors in 32-bit mode.
 * Solaris 11 Express on x86 (32-bit has been tested).
 * Solaris 11 Express on SPARC (Never tested).

=== Microsoft Windows ===
 * VirtualBox images can be downloaded from http://www.sagemath.org/download-windows.html These should be reliable, though we do not test these prior to releasing Sage.

== Almost works ==
This lists systems on which Sage builds, but there are a few doctest errors. However, most of the functionality of Sage should work. If the doctest failures are fixed, these systems will move to the "fully supported" or "expected to work" categories.

=== Linux ===
 * ARM processors. All the issues are numerical, where some computations (in particular of the gamma function) yield results with less numerical precision than expected. See [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10285|Trac #10285]].
 * ppc64: The 64-bit PowerPC port can be followed at [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11705|Trac #11705]]. Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/silius-1|silius]]

=== Solaris ===
 * Solaris 10 on SPARC processors in 32-bit mode. Tested on [[http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves/mark-1|mark]]

== Probably will not work ==
None of these systems have a complete fully reliable port. In some cases completed ports are highly likely. In other cases, the porting effort is not very significant, and there may be insufficient effort to actually complete a port.

If anyone has the time to help on these ports, it would be greatly appreciated.

=== AIX ===
 * A little work has been done on an AIX port. This can be followed at the [[AIX| AIX port page]]. It is not currently clear if this will ever be completed, as there is not a significant effort taking place. If you wish to help, that would be appreciated. If you do not have access to AIX hardware, [[http://www.metamodul.com/|Metamodul]] will provide free public access for open-source development. A couple of Sage developers have used this. Trac ticket [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9999|Trac #9999]] has the latest list of known issues.

=== FreeBSD ===
 * FreeBSD 8.1 (Substantial work has been done on this)

More information about the status of the FreeBSD port can be found at [[freebsd|Sage port to FreeBSD]].

=== Linux ===
 * Mips64: The Mips64 port can be followed at [[SiCortex|The SiCortex port page]].

=== HP-UX ===
 * Some work has been done on an HP-UX port to the PA-RISC processor. At least three Sage developers have tested their code on HP-UX.
 * Some work has been done on HP-UX on the Itanium processor.
More information on the HP-UX port can be found on the [[HP-UX]] page.

=== Microsoft Windows ===
 * Microsoft Windows using Cygwin (Substantial work has been done on this). More information about the status of the Cygwin port can be found at [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort ]] and on the [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-windows sage-windows]] mailing list.
 * Microsoft Windows using Microsoft's compiler. This will be a full native port. There are some efforts at this.

=== OpenSolaris 64-bit ===
 * !OpenSolaris 06/2009 on x86 in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).

=== Solaris 10 64-bit ===
 * Solaris 10 on x86 processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).
 * Solaris 10 on SPARC processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).

More information about the status of the Solaris ports can be found on the [[solaris|Solaris]] page of the Sage Wiki. There's also some notes about installing [[solaris-binaries|Solaris binaries]]

Contents

  1. sage-4.8
    1. Supported compilers
    2. Supported Platforms
      1. Fully supported - Sage is ALWAYS checked on ALL these platforms before a release is made
        1. Linux
        2. Mac OS X
        3. OpenSolaris x86 32-bit
      2. Expected to work - Sage will probably work, but it is not always tested.
        1. Linux
        2. Mac OS X
        3. Solaris
        4. Microsoft Windows
      3. Probably will not work - Porting work may be ongoing
        1. AIX
        2. FreeBSD
        3. Linux (ARM, Mips64 and PPC64 processors)
        4. HP-UX
        5. Microsoft Windows
        6. OpenSolaris 64-bit
        7. Solaris 10 64-bit
        8. Mac OS X
  2. sage-5.0 supported platforms
    1. Fully supported
      1. Linux
      2. Mac OS X
      3. OpenSolaris x86 32-bit
    2. Expected to work
      1. Linux
      2. Mac OS X
      3. Solaris
      4. Microsoft Windows
    3. Almost works
      1. Linux
      2. Solaris
    4. Probably will not work
      1. AIX
      2. FreeBSD
      3. Linux
      4. HP-UX
      5. Microsoft Windows
      6. OpenSolaris 64-bit
      7. Solaris 10 64-bit

sage-4.8

See below for sage-5.0 (which is currently still in development).

Supported compilers

A minimum of gcc 4.0.1 is needed to build Sage, though later releases are generally preferable.

Supported Platforms

If you try to build Sage on most Linux or OS X systems, you should have few if any problems and if there are problems, plenty of people will be able to help you. Just ask on [email protected] But some distributions are better supported than others - see below for details.

Building Sage on Solaris or OpenSolaris is a little tricky, but Sage works on those platforms. Ask for help on [email protected] if you have problems.

If you try to build Sage on something more exotic, you may find a Sage developer able to help you, but you can't be sure.

Below are listed the supported platforms, along with the level of support given. There are 3 levels of support.

  • 1) Fully supported - Sage is ALWAYS checked on ALL these platforms before a release is made
  • 2) Expected to work - Sage will probably work, but it is not always tested.
  • 3) Probably will not work - Porting work may be ongoing.

Specific hardware and software for these 3 levels of support are given below.

Fully supported - Sage is ALWAYS checked on ALL these platforms before a release is made

Sage is fully supported on the following platforms. This means every single release of Sage is always tested on all these platforms. The testing is performed in an automated way using Buildbot. (You can see what systems we use at http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves) Failure to build on one of these platforms will stop a release of Sage being made. Usually all Sage's self-tests (doc-tests) will pass, though one or two failures on one or two platforms may occur, and will be documented in an errata page. Any failures to either build or pass tests are considered very serious bugs.

Also, we will always make binaries available for these platforms.

If you wish to set up a server primarily or exclusively for using Sage, you would be advised to install one of these operating systems, rather than one on which Sage is not regularly tested. You should not assume that Sage will necessarily work on the latest release of these systems, though it usually will.

To aid Sage developers, the hosts on which Sage is fully supported are listed, with a link to the Buildbot page.

There are five requirements for Sage to work successfully on these fully supported platforms.

  • A full development system must be installed - a minimal install will probably not work if you wish to build from source.
  • The system must not have been mis-configured. Unfortunately, it is not unusual for Sage to fail to build on systems where someone has mis-configured the system. A fresh install of the operating system is not necessary, but any changes made since the installation must have been performed properly.
  • It is recommended to have at least 2 GB of RAM (you may get away with less, but you can not be sure). In order to run all doctests, Sage needs up to 2.2 GB of memory.
    • On some very old Mac machines it is possible to build and run tests with as little as .5 GB, with additional swap, because we do not have to build ATLAS on that platform - but there are no guarantees.
  • You need at least 3 GB of free disk space.

  • gcc >= 4.0.1.

  • All instructions must be followed.

Linux

  • Fedora 16 on x86 (64-bit). Tested on one or more of eno, flavius, lena, sextus, taurus

  • Fedora 15 on i686 (32-bit). Tested on cicero

  • SUSE 10 SP1 on Itanium (64-bit) Tested on iras

  • Redhat 5.3 on Intel Itanium (64-bit). Tested on cleo

  • Redhat 5.6 (Tikanga) on x86 (64-bit). Tested on rosemary

  • Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS on x86 (64-bit). Tested on sage

  • Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS on x86 (64-bit). Tested on redhawk

  • Debian 6.0.4 on x86 (64-bit). Tested at NTU

Mac OS X

  • OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on PPC. There is one known problem with the Maxima interface, this will be fixed in sage-5.0, see Trac #9361.

  • OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) 64-bit, with XCode 3 (XCode 4.0.1 is known to produce an executable that does not work). Tested on bsd

OpenSolaris x86 32-bit

  • 06/2009 updated to build 134 on x86 (32-bit only). Tested on hawk

Expected to work - Sage will probably work, but it is not always tested.

In addition to the above systems where Sage will work, Sage will probably work on the following operating systems, though we can't guarantee that, as it is impractical to test each Sage release on all these systems. Failure to build on these systems will be considered a bug, but we may not have the resources to solve any problems. Sage developers should be able to offer assistance to anyone who can't get Sage to work properly on one of these platforms, but since they might not necessarily have access to the platform, that may be difficult.

If anyone is able to test on these systems, we would particularly appreciate reports of failures, since Sage really should work on these systems. We expect to set up an automated system where people can mail successful build reports, and to generate a web page showing successful builds. But currently neither are in place.

Linux

  • Arch on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit)
  • CentOS on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Debian 5.0 on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Fedora 11 or 12 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).

  • Gentoo. The Sage on Gentoo project (http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo) is aimed at properly integrating Sage to the Gentoo system, so is quite different to how Sage builds on all other platforms. This is designed for end users, not developers. However, a recent Sage should build from the source on Gentoo, but that would not be the normal way to use Sage on Gentoo.

  • openSUSE 12.1 on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.3 or later.
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 or later on Intel Itanium processors
  • Ubuntu 8 or later.

Other Linux distributions, such as Slackware are never tested, so may or may not work.

Mac OS X

  • OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard), both PPC and Intel chips. Note that 10.4 PPC is fully supported.

Solaris

  • Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on SPARC processors in 32-bit mode.
  • Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on x86 processors in 32-bit mode.
  • Solaris 10 on x86 processors in 32-bit mode.
  • Solaris 11 Express on x86 (32-bit has been tested).
  • Solaris 11 Express on SPARC (Never tested).

Microsoft Windows

Probably will not work - Porting work may be ongoing

None of these systems have a complete fully reliable port. In some cases completed ports are highly likely. In other cases, the porting effort is not very significant, and there may be insufficient effort to actually complete a port.

If anyone has the time to help on these ports, it would be greatly appreciated.

AIX

  • A little work has been done on an AIX port. This can be followed at the AIX port page. It is not currently clear if this will ever be completed, as there is not a significant effort taking place. If you wish to help, that would be appreciated. If you do not have access to AIX hardware, Metamodul will provide free public access for open-source development. A couple of Sage developers have used this. Trac ticket Trac #9999 has the latest list of known issues.

FreeBSD

  • FreeBSD 8.1 (Substantial work has been done on this)

More information about the status of the FreeBSD port can be found at Sage port to FreeBSD.

Linux (ARM, Mips64 and PPC64 processors)

HP-UX

  • Some work has been done on an HP-UX port to the PA-RISC processor. At least three Sage developers have tested their code on HP-UX.
  • Some work has been done on HP-UX on the Itanium processor.

More information on the HP-UX port can be found on the HP-UX page.

Microsoft Windows

OpenSolaris 64-bit

  • OpenSolaris 06/2009 on x86 in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).

Solaris 10 64-bit

  • Solaris 10 on x86 processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).
  • Solaris 10 on SPARC processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).

More information about the status of the Solaris ports can be found on the Solaris page of the Sage Wiki. There's also some notes about installing Solaris binaries

Mac OS X

  • XCode 4.0.1 is known to produce a Sage executable that segfaults. This needs work. Even more work needs to be done if one wants to use Clang-based compilers that come with it: they cannot even build the whole of Sage.

  • See Trac #11881 for Sage on OS X 10.7 (Lion).

sage-5.0 supported platforms

If you try to build Sage on most Linux or OS X systems, you should have few if any problems and if there are problems, plenty of people will be able to help you. Just ask on [email protected] But some distributions are better supported than others - see below for details.

Building Sage on Solaris or OpenSolaris is a little tricky, but Sage works on those platforms. Ask for help on [email protected] if you have problems.

If you try to build Sage on something more exotic, you may find a Sage developer able to help you, but you can't be sure.

Below are listed the supported platforms, along with the level of support given. There are 4 levels of support.

  1. Fully supported - Sage is ALWAYS checked on ALL these platforms before a release is made.

  2. Expected to work - Sage will probably work, but it is not always tested.

  3. Almost works - Sage builds on these platforms, but there are some known issues. However, most functionality of Sage should still work.

  4. Probably will not work - Porting work may be ongoing.

Specific hardware and software for these levels of support are given below.

Fully supported

Sage is fully supported on the following platforms. This means every single release of Sage is always tested on all these platforms. The testing is performed in an automated way using Buildbot. (You can see what systems we use at http://build.sagemath.org/sage/buildslaves) Failure to build on one of these platforms will stop a release of Sage being made. Usually all Sage's self-tests (doc-tests) will pass, though one or two failures on one or two platforms may occur, and will be documented in an errata page. Any failures to either build or pass tests are considered very serious bugs.

Also, we will always make binaries available for these platforms.

If you wish to set up a server primarily or exclusively for using Sage, you would be advised to install one of these operating systems, rather than one on which Sage is not regularly tested. You should not assume that Sage will necessarily work on the latest release of these systems, though it usually will.

To aid Sage developers, the hosts on which Sage is fully supported are listed, with a link to the Buildbot page.

There are several requirements for Sage to work successfully on these fully supported platforms.

  • A full development system must be installed - a minimal install will probably not work if you wish to build from source.
  • The system must not have been mis-configured. Unfortunately, it is not unusual for Sage to fail to build on systems where someone has mis-configured the system. A fresh install of the operating system is not necessary, but any changes made since the installation must have been performed properly.
  • It is recommended to have at least 2 GB of RAM (you may get away with less, but you can not be sure). In order to run all doctests, Sage needs up to 2.2 GB of memory. Building the documentation needs 2.5 GB of memory.
  • You need at least 3 GB of free disk space.

  • You need to have the prerequisites for building Sage.

  • All instructions must be followed.

Linux

  • Fedora 16 on x86 (64-bit). Tested on one or more of eno, flavius, lena, sextus, taurus

  • Fedora 16 on i686 (32-bit). Tested on cicero

  • SUSE 10 SP1 on Itanium (64-bit) Tested on iras

  • Redhat 5.3 on Intel Itanium (64-bit). Tested on cleo

  • Redhat 5.6 (Tikanga) on x86 (64-bit). Tested on rosemary

  • Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS on x86 (64-bit). Tested on sage

  • Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS on x86 (64-bit). Tested on redhawk

  • Ubuntu 12.04 on x86 (32-bit). Make sure that the dpkg-dev package is installed. Tested on arando

Mac OS X

  • OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on PPC. Tested on moufang

  • OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) 64-bit, with XCode 3. Tested on bsd

OpenSolaris x86 32-bit

  • 06/2009 updated to build 134 on x86 (32-bit only), with gcc as well as the Sun compiler. Tested on hawk

Expected to work

In addition to the above systems where Sage will work, Sage will probably work on the following operating systems, though we can't guarantee that, as it is impractical to test each Sage release on all these systems. Failure to build on these systems will be considered a bug, but we may not have the resources to solve any problems. Sage developers should be able to offer assistance to anyone who can't get Sage to work properly on one of these platforms, but since they might not necessarily have access to the platform, that may be difficult.

If anyone is able to test on these systems, we would particularly appreciate reports of failures, since Sage really should work on these systems. We expect to set up an automated system where people can mail successful build reports, and to generate a web page showing successful builds. But currently neither are in place.

Linux

  • Arch on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
  • CentOS on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
  • Debian 5.0 or 6.0 on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
  • Fedora 11 or later (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).

  • Gentoo. The Sage on Gentoo project (http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo) is aimed at properly integrating Sage to the Gentoo system, so is quite different to how Sage builds on all other platforms. This is designed for end users, not developers. However, a recent Sage should build from source on Gentoo.

  • openSUSE 12.1 on x86 (Both 32-bit and 64-bit).
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.3 or later.
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 or later on Intel Itanium processors

  • Ubuntu 8 or later. For Ubuntu 12.04, make sure the dpkg-dev package is installed.

Other Linux distributions, such as Slackware are never tested, so may or may not work.

Mac OS X

  • OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), both PPC and Intel chips. Note that 10.4 PPC is fully supported.
  • OS X 10.7 (Lion), provided you use a sufficiently recent version of XCode.

Solaris

  • Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on SPARC processors in 32-bit mode.
  • Solaris 10 03/2005 or any later Solaris 10 release on x86 processors in 32-bit mode.
  • Solaris 10 on x86 processors in 32-bit mode.
  • Solaris 11 Express on x86 (32-bit has been tested).
  • Solaris 11 Express on SPARC (Never tested).

Microsoft Windows

Almost works

This lists systems on which Sage builds, but there are a few doctest errors. However, most of the functionality of Sage should work. If the doctest failures are fixed, these systems will move to the "fully supported" or "expected to work" categories.

Linux

  • ARM processors. All the issues are numerical, where some computations (in particular of the gamma function) yield results with less numerical precision than expected. See Trac #10285.

  • ppc64: The 64-bit PowerPC port can be followed at Trac #11705. Tested on silius

Solaris

  • Solaris 10 on SPARC processors in 32-bit mode. Tested on mark

Probably will not work

None of these systems have a complete fully reliable port. In some cases completed ports are highly likely. In other cases, the porting effort is not very significant, and there may be insufficient effort to actually complete a port.

If anyone has the time to help on these ports, it would be greatly appreciated.

AIX

  • A little work has been done on an AIX port. This can be followed at the AIX port page. It is not currently clear if this will ever be completed, as there is not a significant effort taking place. If you wish to help, that would be appreciated. If you do not have access to AIX hardware, Metamodul will provide free public access for open-source development. A couple of Sage developers have used this. Trac ticket Trac #9999 has the latest list of known issues.

FreeBSD

  • FreeBSD 8.1 (Substantial work has been done on this)

More information about the status of the FreeBSD port can be found at Sage port to FreeBSD.

Linux

HP-UX

  • Some work has been done on an HP-UX port to the PA-RISC processor. At least three Sage developers have tested their code on HP-UX.
  • Some work has been done on HP-UX on the Itanium processor.

More information on the HP-UX port can be found on the HP-UX page.

Microsoft Windows

OpenSolaris 64-bit

  • OpenSolaris 06/2009 on x86 in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).

Solaris 10 64-bit

  • Solaris 10 on x86 processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).
  • Solaris 10 on SPARC processors in 64-bit mode. (Substantial work has been done on this).

More information about the status of the Solaris ports can be found on the Solaris page of the Sage Wiki. There's also some notes about installing Solaris binaries

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