Obtaining and installing the program

At present, binaries for machines listed in Table 4 are publicly available. Because the program is still in evolution, please contact us to obtain the most recent version. Send an e-mail message to Jan.Verschelde@cs.kuleuven.ac.be and the most recent version of the requested binary or Ada sources will be accessible by anonymous ftp.

The above paragraph situated the present in November 1996

Currently, the sources and binaries are publicly available from download page of latest version of PHCpack.

While the design of the core of the package is still adequately described in this paper, there are two sequels:

1. Jan Verschelde: Algorithm 795: PHCpack: A general-purpose solver for polynomial systems by homotopy continuation. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 25(2): 251-276, 1999. Abstract and (gzipped .ps file) ; see also html version of the paper.
2. Andrew J. Sommese, Jan Verschelde, and Charles W. Wampler: Numerical Irreducible Decomposition using PHCpack. The Abstract and gzipped postscript file, manuscript in pdf format. In Algebra, Geometry and Software Systems, edited by M. Joswig and N. Takayama, pages 109-130, Springer-Verlag 2003.