Grammatical Framework Download and Install

GF 2.1

November 8, 2004

To run GF, you need either of In addition, you need some grammars. You will certainly want to write grammars yourself, but you can first take a look at This web page gives links to all of these things.

Linux

GF-2.1-1.i586.rpm: RPM package for RedHat and Mandrake
To install, use rpm -i

GF-2.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tgz: generic Intel binaries
To install, untar with tar xvfz, then read src/INSTALL

Macintosh

GF-2.1-powerpc-apple-macosx.tgz: package with binaries
To install, untar with tar xvfz, then read src/INSTALL.

If you don't have GHC installed, you also need to download HaskellSupport.framework.tgz and unpack it in either /Library/Frameworks or ~/Library/Frameworks. For more information, see Haskell Wiki.

Microsoft Windows

gf.exe: package with binaries and example grammars, self-extracting installation package.
To install, execute gf.exe.

Solaris

GF-2.1-solaris.tgz: Solaris binaries
To install, untar with gtar xvfz, then read src/INSTALL.

Source package

GF-2.1.tgz: source and documentation package
Unpack with tar xvfz GF-2.1.tgz, and follow instructions in GF-2.1/src/INSTALL

You can compile GF from source on modern variants of Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

You need GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler), version 6 or later.

For the editor GUI, you also need Java, version 1.4

On Windows, you moreover need the Cygwin environment to compile with GHC.

Running GF

Without the GUI: 
  gf
With the GUI: 
  jgf
On Windows, using the jgf command requires the Cygwin environment. Alternatively, if you use the binary installation (recommended) you can run GF (both with and without GUI) from the Start menu.

To do something with GF, you also need some grammars. You can start by looking at the examples included in the Grammar Library.

Grammar Library

gf-lib.tgz

Bonus

Install the Flite Speech Synthesizer to get the Speak Aloud command (sa).
Back to the GF Home Page.

Last updated November 8, 2004.