CGAL Manuals


CGAL manuals are available in HTML format for online browsing, and in PDF and in HTML for download.

CGAL 3.4 Beta

The User and Reference Manual is the main manual for CGAL, and it is structured into parts corresponding to the different domains of computational geometry. It is available online and you can download it from the INRIA Gforge.

The Installation Guide deals with choosing the compiler, setting options, selecting and configuring third party libraries. It is available online and part of the tarball.

CGAL 3.3

User and Reference Manual

It is the main manual for CGAL, and it is structured into parts corresponding to the different domains of computational geometry.

Online Version PDF Version html.tar.gz Version
Installation Guide

It deals with choosing the compiler, setting options, selecting and configuring third party libraries.

Online Version PDF Version html.tar.gz Version

Other Manuals

Developers Manual

It is intended for developers of new CGAL data structures and algorithms. It's primary usage is internal, but it might help users to understand CGAL better, and to also write generic code.

Online Version PDF Version html.tar.gz Version

Tutorials

Further useful information can be found on the Tutorials page.

Manuals for Older Versions of CGAL

Manuals for older CGAL releases are available for download from the Download Page.


Last modified on Friday, 19-Dec-2008 16:34:03 MET. info at cgal dot org