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- Installation describes how to install CGAL, and lists the third party libraries on which CGAL depends, or for which CGAL provides interfaces.
- Organization of the Manual gives an idea where you should look for documentation. The documentation for a class, may be spread over manual pages of base classes, and reference manual pages of concepts the class is a model of.
- Preliminaries lists the licenses under which the CGAL datastructures and algorithms are distributed, how to control inlining, thread safety, code deprecation, checking of pre- and postconditions, and how to alter the failure behavior.