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Installation instructions

Installing with OPAM

The easiest way to get all packages is through opam. See Coq's opam documentation for installing an opam switch for Coq. See releases and Coq's Package Index for information on the available releases and opam packages.

To add the Coq repository to available opam packages, use:

# opam repo add coq-released https://coq.inria.fr/opam/released

To update the list of available packages at any point use:

# opam update

Then, simply issue:

# opam install coq-metacoq

MetaCoq is split into multiple packages that get all installed using the coq-metacoq meta-package:

  • coq-metacoq-template for the Template Monad and quoting plugin
  • coq-metacoq-pcuic for the PCUIC development and proof of the Template-Coq -> PCUIC translation
  • coq-metacoq-safechecker for the verified checker on PCUIC terms
  • coq-metacoq-erasure for the verifed erasure from PCUIC to untyped lambda-calculus.
  • coq-metacoq-translations for example translations from type theory to type theory: e.g. variants of parametricity.

There are also .dev packages available in the extra-dev repository of Coq, to get those you will need to activate the following repositories:

opam repo add coq-core-dev https://coq.inria.fr/opam/core-dev
opam repo add coq-extra-dev https://coq.inria.fr/opam/extra-dev

Installing from source code

Requirements

To compile the library, you need:

  • The Coq version corrsponding to your branch (you can use the coq.dev package for the master branch).
  • OCaml (tested with 4.06.1 and 4.07.1, beware that OCaml 4.06.0 can produce linking errors on some platforms)
  • Equations 1.2.3 (not necessary for the template-coq plugin).

The recommended way to build a development environment for MetaCoq is to have a dedicated opam switch (see below).

Getting the sources

To get the source code:

# git clone https://github.com/MetaCoq/metacoq.git
# git checkout -b coq-8.11 origin/coq-8.11
# git status

This checks that you are indeed on the coq-8.11 branch.

Setting up an opam switch

To setup a fresh opam installation, you might want to create a "switch" (an environment of opam packages) for Coq if you don't have one yet. You need to use opam 2 to obtain the right version of Equations.

# opam switch create coq.8.11 4.07.1
# eval $(opam env)

This creates the coq.8.11 switch which initially contains only the basic OCaml 4.07.1 compiler, and puts you in the right environment (check with ocamlc -v).

Once in the right switch, you can install Coq and the Equations package using:

# opam install . --deps-only

If the commands are successful you should have coq available (check with `coqc -v**).

Remark: You can create a local switch for developing using (in the root directory of the sources):

# opam switch create . 4.07.1

Or use opam switch link foo to link an existing opam** switch foo** with the sources directory.

Compiling from sources

Important: To compile locally without using opam, use ./configure.sh local at the root.

Then use:

  • make to compile the template-coq plugin, the pcuic development and the safechecker and erasure plugins. You can also selectively build each target.

  • make translations to compile the translation plugins

  • make test-suite to compile the test suite

  • make install to install the plugin in Coq's user-contrib local library. Then the MetaCoq namespace can be used for Require Import statements, e.g. From MetaCoq.Template Require Import All..

  • make uninstall to undo the last line.