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by maclagan
05 Jun 2019, 12:39
Forum: Helpdesk
Topic: Calling polymake from another program on a mac
Replies: 5
Views: 5910

Re: Calling polymake from another program on a mac

Thanks - that resolves this issue.
Diane
by maclagan
04 Jun 2019, 19:48
Forum: Helpdesk
Topic: Calling polymake from another program on a mac
Replies: 5
Views: 5910

Re: Calling polymake from another program on a mac

Thanks for the clarifications. Unfortunately I'm still having trouble. I put the following text in a file "polymaketestinput": use application 'tropical'; $H = new Hypersurface<Min>(POLYNOMIAL=>toTropicalPolynomial("min(a,b,c)")); print $H->VERTICES; When I try maclagan% /Applica...
by maclagan
03 Jun 2019, 20:46
Forum: Helpdesk
Topic: Calling polymake from another program on a mac
Replies: 5
Views: 5910

Calling polymake from another program on a mac

Hi, We're trying to call polymake from inside Macaulay2. Unfortunately, code that works under linux doesn't seem to work on Macs - I'm hoping that there is a different way to do this that I don't know about. The issue is that we want to give polymake an input file from the command line, and have the...
by maclagan
07 Apr 2019, 04:29
Forum: Helpdesk
Topic: Determining version
Replies: 7
Views: 6316

Re: Determining version

I found polymake-config, but get the following error: ./polymake-config --version Global symbol "$InstallArch" requires explicit package name at ./polymake-config line 21. Global symbol "$InstallArch" requires explicit package name at ./polymake-config line 44. Global symbol &quo...
by maclagan
05 Apr 2019, 01:34
Forum: Helpdesk
Topic: Determining version
Replies: 7
Views: 6316

Re: Determining version

Hi,

I don't understand this answer - is polymake-config assuming that we have the source code somewhere (and know where that is)?

If I know nothing about the user's polymake installation, is there no way to get the version? Or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Diane
by maclagan
04 Apr 2019, 21:52
Forum: Helpdesk
Topic: Determining version
Replies: 7
Views: 6316

Determining version

Hi, What's the best way to determine the version of polymake that is installed automatically? Context: I'm writing a Macaulay2 package that will use some polymake functionality if the user has polymake installed, and do things differently if not. For this we need to know whether the user has polymak...

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