Z3

Z3 is a theorem prover from Microsoft Research. Z3 is licensed under the MIT license. Z3 can be built using Visual Studio Command Prompt and make/g++.

Building Z3 on Windows using Visual Studio Command Prompt

32-bit builds, start with:

   python scripts/mk_make.py

or instead, for a 64-bit build:

   python scripts/mk_make.py -x

then:

   cd build
   nmake

Building Z3 using make/g++ and Python

Execute:

   python scripts/mk_make.py
   cd build
   make
   sudo make install

By default, it will install z3 executable at PREFIX/bin, libraries at PREFIX/lib, and include files at PREFIX/include, where PREFIX installation prefix if inferred by the mk_make.py script. It is usually /usr for most Linux distros, and /usr/local for FreeBSD and OSX. Use the --prefix= command line option to change the install prefix. For example:

  python scripts/mk_make.py --prefix=/home/leo
  cd build
  make
  make install

In this example, the Z3 Python bindings will be stored at /home/leo/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages, where X.Y corresponds to the python version in your system.

To uninstall Z3, use

  sudo make uninstall

Building Z3 using clang and clang++ on Linux/OSX

Remark: clang does not support OpenMP yet.

   CXX=clang++ CC=clang python scripts/mk_make.py
   cd build
   make

To clean Z3 you can delete the build directory and run the mk_make.py script again.