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Installation procedure for Blitz++
1. Installation
1.1 From tarfile
Unpack blitz-VERSION.tar.gz in the directory of your choice. The file
blitz-VERSION.tar.gz file will unpack into a subdirectory blitz-VERSION.
Now cd into blitz-VERSION, and run the configure script. Blitz++ now
uses a standard configure script generated using GNU autoconf/automake.
For a typical system, simply running ./configure with no options is
sufficient. The configure script will explore your system to discover
the available compilers and appropriate options to use. To select a
different C++ compiler than the one discovered automatically, give the
option CXX=<compiler-name>. The standard configure option --prefix=<dir>
may be used to select the installation directory for Blitz++. Type
"./configure --help" to see a summary of all the available options.
Once you have run the configure script, do:
make lib
This is a minimal build of just the Blitz++ library. You can also do:
make check-testsuite Build and check the testsuite
make check-examples Build and check the examples
make check-benchmarks Build and check the benchmarks (long)
make install Install Blitz++
make info Build Blitz++ texinfo documentation
make ps Build Blitz++ ps documentation
make pdf Build Blitz++ pdf documentation
make html Build Blitz++ html documentation
make install-info Install Blitz++ texinfo documentation
make install-ps Install Blitz++ ps documentation
make install-pdf Install Blitz++ pdf documentation
make install-html Install Blitz++ html documentation
1.2 From cvs repository
After you have checked out the latest version of Blitz from the cvs
repository, you will need to create the configure script. Do:
autoreconf -fiv
This will run autoconf, aclocal and automake for you to generate the
configure and libtool scripts and all of the Makefile.in files. You
may need to update your system's installed versions of autoconf, automake
and libtool in order for the autoreconf process to work properly. Once
you have successfully generated a configure script, the installation
procedure for Blitz++ is identical as with a tarfile.
Note however that you might get into trouble when running the command
"make". If the command aborts with the following type of messages:
WARNING: `aclocal-1.6' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'. You might want
to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages. Grab them from
any GNU archive site.
WARNING: `automake-1.6' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.
You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
Grab them from any GNU archive site.
You should just need to update the date of the file "configure". You can do
that by running the following command:
touch configure
You can then proceed with make.
2. Setting up symbolic links
If you have root privileges, you can install some symbolic links
to the headers and library. Suppose you unpacked blitz in
/software/Blitz++; then do these commands:
# ln -s /software/Blitz++/blitz /usr/include/blitz
# ln -s /software/Blitz++/lib/libblitz.a
If you prefer, you can use "make install" to copy the header files,
library, examples and documentation into the installation directory.
3. Getting started
There are example programs in the "examples" directory.
The original Blitz++ documentation is found in the "manual" directory.
Point your browser at manual/index.html, or do "gv manual/blitz.ps".
However, this form of the documentation is no longer being actively
maintained. More up-to-date documentation is kept in the "doc" directory.
4. OTHER COMPILERS
If you want to try Blitz++ with a compiler that does not seem to work
with the configure autoconf script, I suggest the following approach:
1. Check the "supported platforms" list at:
http://oonumerics.org/blitz/platforms
and the development mailing list at:
http://oonumerics.org/blitz/contribute/blitz-dev/archive/index.html
to see what progress has been made on your compiler.
2. Go into the compiler subdirectory and run the bzconfig
script. This will exercise your compiler to see what
language features it supports. If it doesn't have
member templates and enum computations, just give up.
3. Install autoconf (from e.g., ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu)
if you don't have it already.
4. Edit the m4/ac_cxx_flags_preset.m4 file to add an appropriate case
and options for your compiler. Then invoke autoconf to generate
the configure script. Then try configure with the CXX=<compiler>
option. Repeat until it works...
5. Try building the testsuite ('make check-testsuite').
6. Holy schmoly! It works! Please drop a note to
blitz-dev@oonumerics.org and include:
- name and info about your compiler
- diffs for configure.in or ac_cxx_flags_preset.m4, if any
- the file <blitz/config.h>
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