SingularInterface interfaces to the Singular interface on the kernel level. The old name of this package was libsing.
This differentiates it from e.g. the GAP package "singular", which instead starts a regular Singular binary as a subprocess, and communicates with that by sending text commands (just as a user would), and then parsing the text replies Singular issues.
Directly interfacing with the Singular C kernel is more complicated, but has the advantage of avoiding parsing issues due to changed output formatting, and also in general tends to be much, much faster.
You can obtain the latest version of SingularInterface from
https://github.com/gap-packages/SingularInterface
Please follow the steps in the file INSTALL.
Currently SingularInterface should work on any UNIX-like platform, including Linux and Mac OS X.
Right now, there is no support for Windows, mainly because none of the SingularInterface developers uses Windows, but also because running GAP and Singular on Windows is a bit tricky. If you are interested in Windows support, please contact us.
Using SingularInterface requires a recent version of GAP (we recommend 4.7.2 or later), and Singular 4.0.1 or later. For technical reasons (specifically, to allow coexistence of their respective memory management systems), both should be built as 64 bit versions.
In addition, you need the following tools to build SingularInterface:
Most Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, ...) already provide suitable packages for all of these. On Mac OS X, the most convenient way to install them is also via a package manager like Fink, MacPorts or Homebrew. Alternatively, you can install any of the above manually.
Please consult the SingularInterface manual for instructions on how to use SingularInterface once you compiled it successfully.
You can contact the SingularInterface team by sending an email to
gapsing AT mathematik DOT uni-kl DOT de
Bug reports or code contributions can be submitted via the issues tracker respectively via pull requests at