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<h1>Getting Started: Building and Running KLEE</h1>

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<h3>
<a href="#cde">1. Trying out KLEE without installing any dependencies</a> <br/>
<a href="#build">2. Building KLEE</a> <br/>
<a href="#posix">3. Building KLEE with POSIX runtime support</a> <br/>
<a href="#stp">4. Building KLEE with a more recent version of STP</a>
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<h2 id="cde">Trying out KLEE without installing any dependencies</h2>

<p>
If you would like to try out KLEE without the hassle of compiling or installing dependencies, <a href="http://keeda.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/klee-cde-package.v2.tar.bz2">download the self-contained package</a> (200MB), and follow the instructions in <tt>klee-cde-package/README</tt> to get up-and-running!
</p>

<p>
This package contains a self-contained source+binary distribution of KLEE and all of its associated dependencies (e.g., llvm-2.7, llvm-gcc, uClibc, svn).  Using this package, you can:
</p>

<ol>
<li/> Compile target programs using llvm-gcc
<li/> Run KLEE on target programs compiled with llvm-gcc
<li/> Modify KLEE's source code, re-compile it to build a new KLEE binary, and then run the test suite using the new binary
<li/> Pull the latest KLEE source code updates from SVN
<li/> Run the entire <a href="TestingCoreutils.html">Coreutils case study</a>
</ol>

<p>
... all without compiling or installing anything else on your Linux machine!
</p>

<p>
The only requirement is that you are running a reasonably-modern x86-Linux distro that can execute 32-bit ELF binaries.  This package was created using the <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/cde.html">CDE auto-packaging tool</a>.
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<h2 id="build">Building KLEE</h2>

<p>If you would like to try KLEE, the current procedure for building is
below.</p>
KLEE is built on LLVM; the first steps are to get a working LLVM
installation. See <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html">Getting
Started with the LLVM System</a> for more information.

<p><b>NOTE:</b> KLEE is only currently tested on Linux and Darwin x86-32
targets, using LLVM top-of-tree. KLEE will not work with an older LLVM (e.g.,
2.5). We are currently working on full support for Linux and Darwin x86-64
targets.<p>

<ol>
  <li>Install llvm-gcc:
    <ul>
      <li>Download and install the LLVM 2.7 release of <tt>llvm-gcc</tt>
        from <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/download.html">here</a>.  Add
        <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> to your <tt>PATH</tt>. It is important to do this first
        so that <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is found in subsequent <tt>configure</tt>
        steps. <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> will be used later to compile programs that KLEE
        can execute.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>

  <li><a href="http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#2.7">Download and build
      LLVM 2.7</a> (you may also use SVN head, but klee may not always be
      up-to-date with LLVM API changes).
    
    <div class="instr">
      $ curl -O http://llvm.org/releases/2.7/llvm-2.7.tgz <br>
      $ tar zxvf llvm-2.7.tgz <br>
      $ cd llvm-2.7 <br>
      $ ./configure --enable-optimized <br>
      $ make
    </div>
    
    (the <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> configure argument is not necessary, but
    KLEE runs very slowly in Debug mode).
  </li>
  
  <li>Checkout KLEE (to any path you like):
    <div class="instr">
      $ svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/klee/trunk klee
    </div>
      Alternatively, if you prefer to use git there is also a
      read-only git mirror, which syncs automatically with each
      Subversion commit. You can do a git clone of KLEE via:
    <div class="instr">
      $ git clone http://llvm.org/git/klee.git
    </div>
  </li>
  
  <li>Configure KLEE (from the KLEE source directory): 
    <div class="instr">
      $ ./configure --with-llvm=<i>path/to/llvm</i>
    </div>
    
    <p>This assumes that you compiled LLVM in-place.  If you used a
      different directory for the object files then use:
      <div class="instr">
	$ ./configure --with-llvmsrc=<i>path/to/llvm/src</i> --with-llvmobj=<i>path/to/llvm/obj</i>
      </div>
  </li>

  <li>Build KLEE (from the KLEE source directory):
    <div class="instr">
      $ make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1
    </div>
  </li>

  <li>Run the regression suite to verify your build:
    <div class="instr">
      $ make check<br>
      $ make unittests<br>
    </div>
  </li>

  <li>You're ready to go!  Go to the <a href="Tutorials.html">Tutorials</a> page
  to try KLEE.</li>
</ol>

<h2 id="posix">Building KLEE with POSIX runtime support</h2>

<p>The steps above are enough for building and testing KLEE on closed programs
(programs that don't use any external code such as C library
functions). However, if you want to use KLEE to run real programs you will want
to enable the KLEE POSIX runtime, which is built on top of the uClibc C
library.</p>

<ol>
  <li>Download KLEE's uClibc:
    <ul>
      <li>
        KLEE uses a version of <a href="http://uclibc.org">uClibc</a>
        which has been modified slightly for use with KLEE.  
	<ul>
	  <li>A version that works on 32-bit Linux can be found
	  here: <a href="http://t1.minormatter.com/~ddunbar/klee-uclibc-0.01.tgz">klee-uclibc-0.01.tgz</a></li>
	  <li>A version that works on 64-bit Linux can be found
	  here: <a href="http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~cristic/klee-uclibc-0.01-x64.tgz">klee-uclibc-0.01-x64.tgz</a>
	  </li>
	</ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  
  <li>Build uClibc with <tt>llvm-gcc</tt>:
    <div class="instr">
      $ tar zxvf klee-uclibc-0.01.tgz <br>
      $ ./configure --with-llvm=<i>path/to/llvm</i> <br>
      $ make <br>
    </div>

    <p><b>NOTE:</b> KLEE's uClibc is shipped in a pre-configured for x86-32. If
      you are on a different target (e.g. x86-64), you will need to run 'make
      config' and select the correct target. The defaults for the other uClibc
      configuration variables should be fine.<p>
  </li>

  <li>Configure KLEE with uClibc/POSIX support:
    <div class="instr">
      $ ./configure --with-llvm=<i>path/to/llvm</i> --with-uclibc=<i>path/to/klee-uclibc</i> --enable-posix-runtime
    </div>
  </li>

  <li>Rebuild KLEE and run <tt>make check</tt> and verify that the POSIX tests
    run correctly.
  </li>
</ol>

<h2 id="stp">Building KLEE with a more recent version of STP</h2>

<p>If your benchmarks are running slowly or not terminating it may
be worth trying a more recent version of KLEE's constraint solver
<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/stpfastprover/">STP</a>,
which offers performance improvements over the version supplied
with KLEE.</p>

<p>STP does not make frequent releases, and its Subversion repository
is under constant development and may be unstable.  The instructions
below are for a particular revision which is known to pass the KLEE
test suite, but you can try a more recent revision (at your own risk)
by changing or removing the <tt>-r</tt> argument to the <tt>svn
co</tt> command.</p>

<ol>
  <li>Download and build STP.
    <div class="instr">
      $ svn co -r 940 https://stp-fast-prover.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/stp-fast-prover/trunk/stp stp <br>
      $ cd stp <br>
      $ scripts/configure --with-prefix=<i>path/to/stp/inst</i> --with-cryptominisat2 <br>
      $ make OPTIMIZE=-O2 CFLAGS_M32= install
    </div>
  </li>

  <li>Configure KLEE:
    <div class="instr">
      $ ./configure --with-llvm=<i>path/to/llvm</i> --with-stp=<i>path/to/stp/inst</i>
    </div>
  </li>

  <li>Rebuild KLEE.</li>
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