Current (demo) versions of WAVE for SPARCstations running SunOS and Solaris, and for PCs running Linux, may be downloaded via the Internet. Point your Web browser to http://ecg.mit.edu for details, or use anonymous FTP to get pub/software/README.DOC from ecg.mit.edu and follow the instructions there for downloading and installing a demo version of WAVE, and the DB Software Package. (Demo versions of WAVE do not permit you to save the results of annotation editing operations, but they are otherwise fully functional.) Fully functional WAVE binaries are also included on some of our CD-ROMs, in the software directory. Follow the instructions in software/README.DOC to install WAVE from any of these CD-ROMs.
Note that WAVE cannot be run at all until the DB library (contained within the DB Software Package) and the XView libraries ( libxview.so.3 and libolgx.so.3) have been installed. The standard installation script installs the DB library in all cases, and (on Linux PCs) the XView libraries if they are not already installed. (The XView libraries are preinstalled by Sun on its current workstations.) It is strongly recommended that you install the complete DB Software Package, since WAVE uses many of the applications included in this package.
To confirm that all necessary libraries are available on your system, type
ldd /usr/local/bin/waveafter installing WAVE and the DB Software Package. If no libraries are reported as missing, the installation is complete. Test it by working through the exercise in chapter 1.
If you would like to try porting WAVE to another operating system for which X11 client support (Xlib) is available, please obtain the XView source distribution and attempt to port `cmdtool' (a simple terminal emulator included in the XView distribution) first. If you are successful, write to the author (george@hstbme.mit.edu) for information on obtaining a current set of WAVE sources. Compared to the original sources, the Linux version of XView (freely available by anonymous FTP from ecg.mit.edu, sunsite.unc.edu, tsx-11.mit.edu, and their mirrors, and also available on many low-cost Linux CD-ROM archives) is easier to port to another operating system, since many Sun-specific dependencies were removed. Nevertheless, porting XView is likely to require significant effort.