Installing GoTools

Building GoTools

This GoTools package uses CMake to generate a Makefile (on Linux) or MS Visual Studio project file (on Windows).

For information on using CMake, see www.cmake.org.

As a Quick Start Guide, on Linux, make a build directory somewhere:

$ cd some_dir
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ccmake <path_to_source_code>

Follow the instructions of 'ccmake' --- the CMake "GUI". Then:

$ make
$ sudo make install

On Windows, add a new build folder somewhere. Start the CMake executable and fill in the paths to the source and build folders. When you run CMake, a Visual Studio project solution file will be generated in the build folder.

Compilers

The code uses certain features of the new C++ standard C++11, most notably the smart pointer std::shared_ptr. It has been tested on GCC 4.6.1 on Linux and Visual Studio 2010 on Windows.

A set of options to control the build can be accessed in CMake (names starting with GoTools). For example, you can turn on/off building the various modules by checking/unchecking GoTools_COMPILE_MODULE_<modulename>.

Also provided is the option GoTools_USE_BOOST. If this option is turned on, the building process uses boost::shared_ptr instead of std::shared_ptr. If a C++11 compliant compiler is not available, you may try this option and see if it works. This requires Boost.