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Installation

You can either run Isabelle/UTP natively on Linux or OSX, or make use of a Virtual Machine image (see below). For convenience, we periodically provide distributions of Isabelle/UTP, including prebuilt heap images, using the latest version of Isabelle/HOL.

Once you have extracted one of these bundles, the easiest way to start Isabelle is with the following command in a terminal from the Isabelle directory:

bin/isabelle jedit -l SESSION_NAME

This will start the Isabelle/jEdit interface with the specified session loaded. For example, if you wish to verify imperative programs then you can use the session ITree_VCG.

The OSX bundle includes an application bundle, which can be copied to the Applications folder. It will be necessary to give it explicit permission to run through the Privacy & Security settings in System Settings.

External Dependencies

If you are using one of the tools that depends on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), such as the ITree or Z-Machine animator, Isabelle is set up to look for ghc in /usr/bin or /opt/homebrew/bin/ghc (OSX). If it is located elsewhere, please edit etc/settings to change the definition of environement variable ISABELLE_GHC (or add it under the definition of ISABELLE_GHC_VERSION) to the correct location, or use Isabelle's own version with stack using isabelle ghc_setup.

The Hybrid-Verification session can make use of the Wolfram Engine to find symbolic solutions to differential equations. To use it, please install it from the website and add the wolframscript binary to your PATH.

Virtual Machines

You can also run Isabelle/UTP via a Virtual Machine image, which is currently the only option for Windows machines. You can install it easily from the command line by first installing Vagrant and VirtualBox (or another hypervisor), and then running the following commands:


vagrant init pfribeiro/cyphyassure-amd64

vagrant up

This will download the latest VM image, and start it in your hypervisor. If you have an ARM-based system (e.g. OSX M1), then use the Vagrant image called  pfribeiro/cyphyassure-arm64 instead. Thanks to Pedro Ribeiro for supporting these images.

Manual Installation

You  can build your own distribution of Isabelle/UTP from a vanilla Isabelle using the script make_IsabelleUTP.sh. Install a vanilla Isabelle and the run this script from the main directory of the extracted archive. This will apply a patch to Isabelle and build all the tools. This works on both Linux and OSX. On OSX you'll need to install wget first with something like brew install wget.

Development

The source code for Isabelle/UTP is distributed on GitHub. Isabelle/UTP consists of a set of interdependent repositories that are constantly under development. The main repositories are as follows:

The easiest way to begin developing Isabelle/UTP is via the CyPhyAssure meta-repository, which we periodically sync and try to keep in a stable state. There is a script in this repository called make_IsabelleUTP.sh, which will build a distribution of the tools. You need to first download a vanilla release of Isabelle/HOL, extract it, and then run make_IsabelleUTP.sh from the main directory of Isabelle. This will first patch Isabelle (to add the code for the ITree animator), and then build the main heap images. This process works on both Linux and OSX.