Grammatical Framework Download and Installation


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**GF 3.3.3** was released on 3 March 2012.

What's new? See the [Release notes release-3.3.3.html].


== Binary packages ==

| **Platform** | **Download** | **How to install**
| Linux (32-bit) | [gf-3.3.3-bin-i386-linux.tar.gz gf-3.3.3-bin-i386-linux.tar.gz] | ``sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.3.3-bin-i386-linux.tar.gz``
| Linux (64-bit) | [gf-3.3.3-bin-amd64-linux.tar.gz gf-3.3.3-bin-amd64-linux.tar.gz] | ``sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.3.3-bin-amd64-linux.tar.gz``
| MacOS X | [gf-3.3.3-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz gf-3.3.3-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz] | ``sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.3.3-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz``
| Windows | [gf-3.3.3-bin-windows.zip gf-3.3.3-bin-windows.zip] | ``unzip gf-3.3.3-bin-windows.zip``
| ... | ... | ...

More packages might be added later.

===Notes===

The Windows package is installed by just unpacking it anywhere. 
It finds the libraries relative to the ``.exe`` file.

%The ``.deb`` packages work on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.

%The ``.pkg`` package works on MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
The MacOS tar package works on 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and probably
also 10.7 (Lion).

The MacOS and Linux ``.tar.gz`` packages are designed to be installed in ``/usr/local``.
You can install them in other locations, but then you need to set the
``GF_LIB_PATH`` environment variable:

```
  export GF_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/share/gf-3.3.3/lib
```

where ``/usr/local`` should be replaced with the path to the location where you
unpacked the package.


==Installing the latest release from source==

[GF is on Hackage http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gf], so the prodedure is
fairly simple:

+ Install the [Haskell Platform http://hackage.haskell.org/platform]
  (versions 2010.2.0.0 - 2011.4.0.0 should work) (see note 2 below)
+ ``cabal update``
+ On Linux: install some C libraries from your Linux distribution
  (see note 1 below)
+ ``cabal install gf``


You can also download the full source package from here:
[``gf-3.3.3.tar.gz`` gf-3.3.3.tar.gz].

=== Notes ===

The above steps installs GF for a single user.
% and does not require root privileges.
The executables are put in ``$HOME/.cabal/bin``
(or, with recent versions of the Haskell platform on Mac OS X,
in ``$HOME/Library/Haskell/bin``), so it is a good
idea to put a line in your ``.bash_profile`` to add that directory to you path:

```
  PATH=$HOME/.cabal/bin:$PATH
```
or
```
  PATH=$HOME/Library/Haskell/bin:$PATH
```

**Note 1**.
GF uses [``haskeline`` http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskeline], which
depends some non-Haskell libraries that
won't be installed automatically by cabal, so you need to install
them manually. Here is one way to do this:

- On Ubuntu: ``sudo apt-get install libghc6-terminfo-dev``
- On Fedora: ``sudo yum install ghc-terminfo-devel``


**Note 2**.
GF does **not** compile with the most recent versions of GHC (>=7.2).
GF does **not** compile with the most recent versions of Alex (>=3.0).

==Installing from the latest developer code==

The first time:
%, assuming you already have the Haskell Platform and darcs

```
  darcs get --lazy http://www.grammaticalframework.org/ GF
  cd GF
  cabal install
```

Subsequently:

```
  cd GF
  darcs pull -a
  cabal install
```

The above notes for installing from source apply also in this case.


==Older releases==

- [GF 3.3 index-3.3.html] (October 2011).
- [GF 3.2.9 index-3.2.9.html] source-only snapshot (September 2011).
- [GF 3.2 index-3.2.html] (December 2010).
- [GF 3.1.6 index-3.1.6.html] (April 2010).
- [GF 3.1 old-index.html] (December 2009).


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