README.Debian
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The homepage of CGAL (http://www.cgal.org/) offers more information about
CGAL. In particular, a mailing list and the documentation for the library
(online and offline) are available. The authors ask you to give some
feedback about your usage of CGAL in a short questionnaire (in the "Support"
section).


Documentation
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Note that the CGAL documentation is not packaged for Debian since there is no
tarball with the documentation sources available. unclear license conditions.
The complete documentation (online and offline) is available at
http://www.cgal.org/.


Demos and examples
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Tarballs with demos and examples can be found in /usr/share/doc/libcgal-demo.
Extract the tarballs somewhere and call "cmake ." to configure the
demos/examples. Call "make" to build them, either in the top-level directory
to build all demos/examples (which takes some time and needs quite some disk
space), or in the subdirectory of the desired demo/exmaple. The cmake option
-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON is useful to generate verbose makefiles that show
each executed command.

The data files will be found automatically if their tarball is extracted into
the same directory as the demos and/or examples. Otherwise, the location can
be set with the cmake option -DCGAL_DATA_DIR.


Support for MPFI and NTL
------------------------

Support for MPFI and NTL is not enabled in the default configuration. The
support can be manually enabled by defining the macros CGAL_USE_MPFI and
CGAL_USE_NTL and linking with -lmpfi and -lntl, respectively.

 -- Joachim Reichel <reichel@debian.org>  Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:44:16 +0200

