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9 cvc5
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11
12 cvc5 is a tool for determining the satisfiability of a first order formula
13 modulo a first order theory (or a combination of such theories). It is the
14 fifth in the Cooperating Validity Checker family of tools (CVC, CVC Lite,
15 CVC3, CVC4) but does not directly incorporate code from any previous version
16 prior to CVC4.
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18 If you are using cvc5 in your work, or incorporating it into software of your
19 own, we invite you to send us a description and link to your
20 project/software, so that we can link it on our [Third Party
21 Applications](https://cvc4.github.io/third-party-applications.html) page.
22
23 cvc5 is intended to be an open and extensible SMT engine. It can be used as a
24 stand-alone tool or as a library. It has been designed to increase the
25 performance and reduce the memory overhead of its predecessors. It is written
26 entirely in C++ and is released under an open-source software license (see file
27 [COPYING](https://github.com/cvc5/cvc5/blob/master/COPYING)).
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29
30 Website
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32 cvc5's website is available at:
33 https://cvc5.github.io/
34
35 Documentation
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37 Documentation for users of cvc5 is available at:
38 https://cvc5.github.io/docs/
39
40 Documentation for developers is available at:
41 https://github.com/cvc5/cvc5/wiki/Developer-Guide
42
43 Download
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45
46 The latest version of cvc5 is available on GitHub:
47 https://github.com/cvc5/cvc5
48
49 Source tar balls and binaries for releases of the
50 [master branch](https://github.com/cvc5/cvc5) can be
51 found [here](https://github.com/cvc5/cvc5/releases).
52 Nightly builds are available [here](https://cvc4.github.io/downloads).
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54
55 Build and Dependencies
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57
58 cvc5 can be built on Linux and macOS. For Windows, cvc5 can be cross-compiled
59 using Mingw-w64.
60
61 For detailed build and installation instructions on these platforms,
62 see file [INSTALL.rst](https://github.com/cvc5/cvc5/blob/master/INSTALL.rst).
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64
65 Bug Reports
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67
68 If you need to report a bug with cvc5, or make a feature request, please visit
69 our bugtracker at our [GitHub issues](https://github.com/cvc5/cvc5/issues)
70 page. We are very grateful for bug reports, as they help us improve cvc5.
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72
73 Contributing
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75
76 Please refer to our [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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79 Authors
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81
82 For a full list of authors, please refer to the
83 [AUTHORS](https://github.com/cvc5/cvc5/blob/master/AUTHORS) file.