OpenCog

Building OpenCog

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The README file on launchpad contains build instructions.

Warning: currently in order to compile OpenCog you need a version of Boost between 1.37 and 1.39, above 1.39 it's not gonna compile due to a bug in Boost.

For alternate instructions see:

  • Cogbuntu Developer Preview live DVD
    (recommended in conjunction with the free VirtualBox for users of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions other than the current latest version of Ubuntu Linux)
  • Eucalyptus UEC and Amazon EC2 images, coming real soon now!...

General Instructions

For platform-specific instructions, please see the links above. There are, however, some common aspects of installing OpenCog on all platforms. The general procedure for obtaining the development version of OpenCog is as follows.

  • Install dependancies (there are many)
  • Get the source:
bzr branch lp:opencog
  • Build the project:
mkdir bin ; cd bin
cmake ..
make
  • Edit configuration files (see also the launchpad documentation)
  • Run the cogserver:
bin/opencog/server/cogserver