OOF2: The Manual
| Chapter 1. Getting Started | ||
|---|---|---|
|
 |
|
Table of Contents
OOF2 is available from the NIST CTCMS website at
After downloading the program, follow the installation
instructions in the README
file.
OOF2 will run on any Unix system with an X11 server. At the current time, it will not run on Windows. It has been compiled and run at NIST on Debian Linux, RedHat Linux, SGI, and Macintosh OS X systems.
OOF2 requires a number of other freely available software programs and libraries to run.[1] These must be installed before you install OOF2. To compile OOF2 from sources, you will also require the header files (“includes”) associated with these programs and libraries. These are usually available as part of a “development” version of the library software.
Table 1.1. OOF2 Requirements
|
Python |
2.3 or later |
|
|
Magick++ |
||
|
gtk+ |
2.6 or later |
|
|
libgnomecanvas |
2.6 or later |
|
|
pygtk-2.0 |
2.6 or later |
|
|
swig |
1.1 build 883[a] |
|
|
[a]
We are using an old version of
swig because it was
the stable version at the time we began
OOF2. Earlier versions, notably 1.1 patch 5,
will not work
properly. However,
swig is only used
to generate the “glue” code
between the C++ and Python portions of OOF2.
If you're not going to be developing your own
C++ modules, you can use the
|
||
Macintosh users should install Apple's X11.app or another X11 server. X11.app is available from Apple or as an option during the OS X installation process.
OOF2 also requires the ability to run the blas and lapack linear algebra subroutines. These are provided with many systems. In particular, on Macintosh OS X they are built into the vecLib framework, and no special libraries are required. On Linux and commercial Unix systems, they may have to be installed.
[1] We hope to soon have installer packages for popular open-source distributions to simplify this process.
|
|
|
|
| 2. About This Manual |  |
1.2. Running OOF2 |
/* OOF home */ /* OOF2 home */ /* Send mail to the OOF Team */