ANT “ant is not TeX.” http://ant.berlios.de Achim Blumensath In order to compile ant you need: o OCaml version 3.10, o OMake version 0.9.8.1, o kpathsea version 3.2, o FreeType version 2, o CamlImages version 2.2, o mlgmp version 0.13 (optional). (1) You might want to edit the file “OMakefile” to set some paths. In particular, the variables KPATHSEA_LDFLAGS and KPATHSEA_CFLAGS probably need adjustment. (2) You can choose between three number libraries: o Float: (default) All computations use floating point numbers. This is the fastest option but it might result in rounding errors. o Gmp: uses the mlgmp library. This gives exact results but it slower. o Num: Is similar to Gmp but does not depend on an external library. This is the slowest option. You can specify the number library by setting the NUM_LIB variable in the file “OMakefile”. Alternatively you can pass the corresponding option directly to omake, like: $ omake NUM_LIB=Gmp (3) You can specify which version of the compiler to use by setting the following variables: o NATIVE_ENABLED: If set to “true” (default) ant is compiled to native code. o BYTE_ENABLED: If set to “true” ant is compiled to byte code. o NATIVE_CAMLP4: If set to “true” (default) a native version of the preprocessor camlp4 is created. This speeds up the compilation process. (4) Finally, to compile ant type $ omake You might get errors about a stack overflow. In this case you can increase your stack size either by $ ulimit -s 16384 (if you use the native compilers) or by $ make OCAMLRUNPARAM="l=16M" (if you use the bytecode version). (5) Further documentation can be found in the file “manual.pdf”. The directory “Examples” contains some example ant sources including the source of the manual. Note that some of these examples use fonts not normally installed in a TeX system. To compile these documents you have to replace the corresponding \include{...} command by \include{fonts.ant} (which loads Computer Modern).