GAP

The latest stable release of the GAP system can be obtained from . Afterwards, follow the instructions in the file INSTALL.md in the GAP root directory. Alternatively, you can compile the latest development version of GAP. However, most users should instead use the latest official release instead as described in the previous section. In this case, you need to have some more software dependencies installed than with a stable release in order to compile GAP. In particular, you need at least these: On other operating systems, you will need to figure out equivalent commands to install the required dependencies. In contrast to the GAP stable releases, the development version does not come bundled with all the GAP packages. Therefore, if you do not have a GAP package archive yet, we recommend that you bootstrap the stable versions of packages by executing one of the following commands. Whether you choose to bootstrap-pkg-minimal or bootstrap-pkg-full depends on your needs for development. In the latter case please note that make bootstrap-pkg-full only unpacks packages but does not build those of them that require compilation. You can change to the pkg directory and then call ../bin/BuildPackages.sh from there to build as many packages as possible. The GAP Project welcomes contributions from everyone, in the shape of code, documentation, blog posts, or other. For contributions to this repository, please read the contributor guidelines. Additional information: Developer guidelines Notes on the build system If you have any questions about working with GAP, you can ask them on the GAP forum mailing list (requires subscription) or use one of our various support channels.