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| PDL Module Dependencies |
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This file lists dependencies of PDL modules on external programs
or libraries. Some of the modules will build ok without the
external software but in general are not very useful without it.
Others require certain libraries/include files to be installed.
See INSTALL on hints how to enable/disable building of some modules
in the distribution if required.
The easiest way to resolve dependencies on other Perl modules is
to use the CPAN module to install PDL. Installation should be as
simple as
cpan install PDL # if the cpan script is in your path
or if you don't have the cpan script try
perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install PDL
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| MODULE | DEPENDS ON | COMMENT |
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PDL (all) perl >= 5.8.x PDL requires at least this version
of perl to build and run.
File::Spec >= 0.6 perl5 core module.
File::Temp >= 0 perl5 core module.
Pod::Parser >= 0 perl5 core module.
Pod::Select >= 0 perl5 core module.
ExtUtils::MakeMaker >= 6.56
This version of EU::MM is the first
with support for CONFIGURE_REQUIRES.
PDL::NiceSlice Text::Balanced >= 1.89 A nicer way to index piddles.
Filter::Util::Call
Filter::Simple Required for new PDL::NiceSlice
Module::Compile implementation under development.
Inline::Pdlpp Inline >= 0.68 This module allows to define fast
Inline::C >= 0.62 PP code inline in your scripts.
NOTE: Though Inline is listed as as
PDL prerequisite for CPAN, you can
build PDL manually without it.
PDL::ParallelCPU pthreads library Multi-CPU support will be enabled
if libpthreads is detected and
built against. A pthreads for
win32 can be found at
http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
PDL::IO::Dumper Data::Dumper >= 2.121
Convert::UU Convert::UU is required.
uuencode/uudecode (Optional) Better performance on
unix flavor platforms! They will
be used instead of Convert::UU
if detected.
PDL::IO::Storable Storable >=1.03
perl >= 5.10.x Will build but won't work for perl
versions prior to 5.10.0
pdl2 (shell) Devel::REPL >= 1.003011
and Term::ReadLine::Perl
or Term::ReadLine::Gnu
Devel::REPL requires Data::Dump::Streamer
to support pdl2. This may need to be
hand-installed if you are doing a manual
PDL build.
perldl (shell) Term::ReadLine::Perl
or Term::ReadLine::Gnu
pdl2 (and perldl) will be installed
by default. If Devel::REPL is not
installed, pdl2 uses perldl. The
same thing if a Term::ReadLine::Perl
or Term::ReadLine::Gnu is not installed.
PDL::GIS::Proj
PDL::Transform::Proj
A PDL interface to the PROJ4 geographic projection
library and the PDL::Transform interface to PROJ4.
See http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/
Module will be built if the PROJ4
library is installed and detected.
PDL::Graphics::TriD
Requires the perl OpenGL module be installed.
See the POGL_VERSION entry in perldl.conf for
the minimum required version.
Perl OpenGL requires you have the OpenGL graphics
library and FreeGLUT (Apple GLUT on Mac OS X)
installed.
PDL::Graphics::TriD will be
built if Perl OpenGL is detected
and of version greater than the
POGL_VERSION in perldl.conf.
To disable the build, edit
perldl.conf and set WITH_3D => 0.
PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT
Requires both the PGPLOT perl module **and**
the PGPLOT fortran library. See
http://astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot for the
library and
http://search.cpan.org/search%3fmodule=PGPLOT
for the perl module (on CPAN).
NOTE: These are two separate items to be installed.
PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT Module
builds ok without PGPLOT module
and library.
PDL::Graphics::PLplot
The PLplot graphics library.
See http://plplot.sourceforge.net
Module will be built if the
PLplot library is detected.
PDL::Graphics::IIS
To be useful an application that supports
the 'IIS' protocol must be installed, e.g.
SAOimage or Ximtool, see
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage.html
http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/web/projects/x11iraf/
PDL::Graphics::IIS builds
without viewers.
PDL::GSL modules
Needs the GSL (Gnu Scientific Library) to
build. Version >= 1.0 is required
See http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
Will not be built unless
an appropriate GSL version
is installed and detected.
PDL::IO::Browser
Requires a 'curses'-compatible library.
You'll need to enable in perldl.conf if you
wish to try the new configure and build,
no guarantees...
Not built by default.
PDL::IO::FastRaw
PDL::IO::FlexRaw
Memory-mapped file IO functions (mapfraw
and mapflex) require File::Map 0.47 or
higher. (Systems with POSIX mmap routines
will work without File::Map but it is
expected that the less-flexible, legacy
implementation will be deprecated)
Built by default if File::Map
or mmap dependencies are met.
PDL::IO::FITS Needs Astro::FITS::Header for full support
of all FITS header features. Will build ok,
and run, without it but for given that
Astro::FITS::Header is a Perl only module, you
should install it unless you specifically need not.
NOTE: It is currently listed as an official
prerequisite module for the purposes of building
with the cpan shell.
PDL::IO::GD PDL interface to the GD image library.
See http://www.libgd.org
Will not be built unless
libgd is already installed
and detected.
PDL::IO::HDF PDL interface to HDF4 library. See
PDL::IO::HDF5 on CPAN for HDF5 bindings.
Not all HDF4 types are supported.
See http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf4/
Will not be built unless the
HDF4 libraries are detected.
PDL::IO::Pic rpic/wpic: NetPBM converters
See http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
wmpeg: requires the ffmpeg program
See http://ffmpeg.org/
Module builds ok without
converters. Recommend at
least version 10.58.00 of
NetPBM.
PDL::Minuit PDL interface to Minuit minimization routines in
the CERN library,
http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/minuit/minmain.html
The Minuit library code is included. A fortran compiler
is required and ExtUtils:F77 (version >= 1.03).
Will not be built unless
ExtUtils::F77 is installed *and*
supports your platform.
PDL::Slatec Linear algebra routines.
Several other PDL modules use PDL::Slatec
Slatec fortran lib is included but
requires a fortran compiler and
ExtUtils::F77 (version >= 1.03).
Will not be built unless
ExtUtils::F77 is installed *and*
supports your platform.