  G\'omez-Mont, Seade and Verjovsky introduced an index, now called GSV-index,
generalizing the Poincar\'e-Hopf index to complex vector fields tangent to
singular hypersurfaces. The GSV-index extends to the real case. This is a
survey paper on the joint research with G\'omez-Mont and Giraldo about
calculating the GSV-index $\Ind_{V_\pm,0}(X)$ of a real vector field $X$
tangent to a singular hypersurface $V=f^{-1}(0)$. The index
$\Ind_{V_{\pm,0}}(X)$ is calculated as a combination of several terms. Each
term is given as a signature of some bilinear form on a local algebra
associated to $f$ and $X$. Main ingredients in the proof are G\'omez-Mont's
formula for calculating the GSV-index on singular complex hypersurfaces and the
formula of Eisenbud, Levine and Khimshiashvili for calculating the
Poincar\'e-Hopf index of a singularity of a real vector field in $\R^{n+1}$
