Windows

Installing the GAP distribution with all the packages and full data libraries from source code requires a working C and C++ development environment on your system as well as GNU make.

For users of Windows 10, we strongly recommend using GAP via the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Otherwise, we recommend the use of .exe installer which is available in the table below. It contains binaries for GAP (compiled with the support of GMP and readline libraries) and for selected GAP packages, and provides the standard installation procedure. No compilation is needed, since compiled executables for GAP and some packages are already provided by the .exe installer.

Note that the path to the GAP directory should not contain spaces. For example, you may install GAP in C:\gap-4.13.1 (default), D:\gap-4.13.1 or C:\Math\GAP\gap-4.13.1, but you must not install it in a directory named like C:\Program files\gap-4.13.1 or C:\Users\alice\My Documents\gap-4.13.1 etc.

gap-4.13.1-x86_64.exe

648 MB

sha256: 818de0167e109a6335efed8660e7d1b277c89eac4fa6f2d31839b8b3b300e021

If you want to try to build binaries for more packages, you may install Cygwin to get a UNIX environment for Windows, selecting all needed tools during Cygwin installation.