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Before beginning the installation of the WFDB Software Package, obtain and
install the libcurl
package from http://curl.haxx.se/, or else
the libwww
package from http://www.w3.org/Library/ or
http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/libwww/. One or both of
these packages is provided with most current versions of GNU/Linux. (If you
have a program called curl-config
, then libcurl
is installed
already; if you have one named libwww-config
, then libwww
is
installed already.) You may omit this step if you do not wish to have NETFILES
support.
If you wish to use WAVE, also download and install the XView
software from http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/xview/. Sources
are available, as are binaries for several versions of GNU/Linux. If you are
using SunOS or Solaris, XView binaries are available in the Open Look Software
Development package and may be installed already. (If you have a program
called textedit
, then XView
is installed already.) If you are
able to use an existing set of binaries, these are recommended, since the
sources may take a long time to compile. Be sure that the directory
containing textedit
, usually /usr/openwin/bin
, is in your
PATH
. You may omit this step if you do not wish to use WAVE.
If you have downloaded the software from PhysioNet or another source, you
will have a gzip
-compressed tar
archive. Unpack it using
the commands:
gzip -d wfdb.tar.gz tar xfv wfdb.tar |
(If you have GNU tar
, as on GNU/Linux, you can combine these into a
single command: `tar xfvz wfdb.tar.gz'.)
This will create a directory with a name of the form wfdb-
m.n.r,
where m.n.r is the version number of the included WFDB library (e.g.,
10.2.6
). Enter this directory.
You should now be ready to configure, compile, and install the software, using the commands:
./configure make install |
The ./configure
command asks where you wish to install the package.
If you accept the default (/usr
), you will need root permissions when
runnning make install
. If you choose another location, follow the
instructions given by configure
for setting your PATH
and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variables.
Depending on the speed of your system and of your C compiler, `make' will generally require between 1 and 10 minutes.
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George B. Moody (george@mit.edu)