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RE: newbie question....trying hard to get GSL to work under windows
- From: "Oregon Medical Press" <office at ompress dot com>
- To: "Slaven Peles" <peles at cns dot physics dot gatech dot edu>,"G L Ingram" <g dot l dot ingram at durham dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: <gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:56:27 -0500
- Subject: RE: newbie question....trying hard to get GSL to work under windows
Thanks for the suggestions from both of you. It does seem that GSL
installation is easier under cygwin, but if possible I would still like to
install under MSYS/mingw32 because I have read that the executables run
faster this way under windows. Speed is a concern for me. Any other
suggestions as to my questions regarding installation under MSYS/ming32? I
have figured one thing out. There is a great write-up at
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/gnumex20.html explaining how to
integrate Matlab into the process.
Cheers,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Slaven Peles [mailto:peles@cns.physics.gatech.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:22 AM
To: G L Ingram; Oregon Medical Press
Cc: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: newbie question....trying hard to get GSL to work under
windows
As far as I remember gsl was (and I hope still is) part of cygwin
distribution. One just has to select gsl among other packages during cygwin
installation. I don't use windows that much but it seems to me that the
easiest way to get gsl on MS is through cygwin.
Cheers,
Slaven
On June 27, 2003 09:58, G L Ingram wrote:
> John,
>
> I'm by no means an expert in all this but you might this useful:-
>
> I've no idea about MATLAB I don't use it. However I do use the GSL under
> windows using cygwin - I imagine the principles are the same:-
>
> When I want to install a GSL installation I download a tar.gz file
> from: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/pub/gsl/
>
> this I then copy to the /home/username directory for cygwin. The
> /home/username directory is found in the windows world as
> c:\cygwin\home\username. There may be a better choice of directory but
> that's the one I use. You should be able to find an analagous
> directory for msys.
>
> Having copied the file I push the cygwin icon button thingy this then pops
> a window with a command prompt in it. From there you can navigate to the
> /home/username directory. I then unzip (uncompress) the file using:-
>
> # gzip -d name_of_file
>
> Don't type the "#" it's shorthand for the command prompt. I then untar
> the file using
>
> # tar -xvf name_of_file
>
> This produces a subdirectory called gsl-1.2/ or whatever verison gsl you
> have downloaded. I then cd to this directory if you type
> # less install
> you should get some installation instructions but basically to get
> gsl working type:-
>
> # ./configure
> # make
> # make install
>
> This process should put the right files in the right place.
>