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Overview
========
Spot is a model-checking library developed collaboratively by LRDE
and LIP6. It provides algorithms and data structures to implement
the automata-theoretic approach to LTL model checking.
Spot is a model-checking toolkit comprising:
- a C++11 library with data-structures and algorithms for working
with linear-time temporal logical formulas and ω-automata with
any acceptance condition.
- a set of command-line tools for easy access to those algorithms,
with convenient interfaces to third-party tools also manipulating
similar concepts.
- Python bindings (including Jupyter interfaces) for the library,
making it easier to play with and discover those concepts.
Documentation
=============
Some documentation can be found in the doc/ directory.
- doc/userdoc/ is basically a local copy of the web-site at
https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/. It contains several explanations and
illustrations of the core concepts and tools; it has installation
instructions; and also provide several code examples.
- doc/spot.html/ contains documentation for the C++ library. It is
generated automatically from the source code using Doxygen.
- doc/tl/tl.pdf contains documentation about the various temporal
logic operators supported by Spot. It provides semantics, syntax,
and gives an exhaustive list of all implemented rewritings.
"make install" will also install man pages for command-line tools.
(These man pages can also be found in the spot/bin/man/ subdirectory
of the source tree.) Additional documentation about these tools can
also be found in doc/userdoc/.
An important part of the documentation that is missing is the
documentation of the Python bindings. Currently all we have is a
collection of examples, which are all collected at
http://spot.lrde.epita.fr/tut.html (or doc/userdoc/tut.html in the
source tree). This is hardly ideal, but we do not have the resources
to maintain such a manual for the Python binding by hand. If you have
an idea about how to generate a manual for the Python bindings
automatically, please do contribute!
History
=======
This project started in 2003 at LIP6 (www.lip6.fr). The main author
moved to LRDE (www.lrde.epita.fr) in 2007, and all regular
contributors are now at LRDE. The web site was moved from
spot.lip6.fr to spot.lrde.epita.fr in 2015, so do not be surprised if
you find links to the old site.
It is mainly meant to be used as a C++ library, but it also comes with
a few handy command-line utilities, and some Python bindings.
Keeping in touch
================
If you have questions regarding Spot, a bug reports, please send them
to <spot@lrde.epita.fr>. This is a public mailing list which you may
subscribe to at https://www.lrde.epita.fr/mailman/listinfo/spot but you
should feel free to post without subscribing.
If you have questions regarding Spot, or bug to report, please send
them to <spot@lrde.epita.fr>. This is a public mailing list which you
may subscribe to at https://www.lrde.epita.fr/mailman/listinfo/spot
but you should feel free to post without subscribing.
We also run an extremely low traffic list for announcements of
new releases of Spot. You may subscribe to that list at
We also run a low-traffic and read-only list for announcements of new
releases of Spot. You may subscribe to that list at
https://www.lrde.epita.fr/mailman/listinfo/spot-announce
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--enable-glibgxx-debug
Enable the debugging version libstdc++
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/debug_mode_semantics.html
Note that the debugging version og libstdc++ is incompatible with
Note that the debugging version of libstdc++ is incompatible with
the regular version. So if Spot is compiled with this option, all
client code should be compiled with -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG as well. This
options should normally only be useful to run Spot's test-suite.
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flags from a built-in list.
Documentation
=============
Some documentation can be found in the doc/ directory.
- doc/spot.html/ contains documentation for the C++ library.
- doc/tl/tl.pdf contains documentation about the various temporal
logic operators supported by Spot
"make install" will install man pages for command-line tools. (These
man pages can also be found in the spot/bin/man/ subdirectory of the
source tree.) Additional documentation about these tools can be found
in doc/userdoc/, or online at https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/tools.html
Layout of the source tree
=========================
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