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Requirements

Third-party software

The following list of software should be installed on your system before you try to install Magics. If you use a package manager, such as RPM, to install software make sure to include the corresponding development packages with the header files. The configure script will test for these libraries and give error messages if one of them is missing.

1. CMake

2. NetCDF library with C++ interface (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/)

3. Expat XML parser

4. Perl XML-Parser (most of the time it comes with Perl, but if not: XML-Parser)

5. GhostScript (especially the fonts!)

6. Boost C++ library (http://www.boost.org )

7. Proj4 projection library (http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/)
8. SWIG to build the Python interface

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1. Cairo graphics library (1.4.10 or later - www.cairographics.org)gd library (2.0.32 or later - www.libgd.org )

    

ECMWF support libraries

To read GRIB and BUFR data formats these two libraries, provided by ECMWF without charge, need to be installed on your system before Magics is installed:

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cmake options	doc	default	ECMWF
WITH_GRIB	enable grib support	on	on
GRIB_API_PATH	where to find grib-api		/usr/local/lib/metaps/lib/grib_api/1.11.0
WITH_NETCDF	enable netcdf support	on	on
NETCDF_PATH	where to find netcdf
WITH_ODB	enable odb support	off	off
ODB_API_PATH	where to find odb		/usr/local/apps/odb_api/0.9.28
WITH_BUFR	enable bufr support	off	off (but if on we have to set  PGI_PATH to /usr/local/apps/pgi/pgi-10.8/linux86-64/10.8/libso)
BUFR_LIB
WITH_PYTHON	enable python support	on	on
WITH_FORTRAN	enable fortran support	on	on
WITH_METVIEW	enable metview support(and Qt support)	off	off
WITH_CAIRO	enable cairo support	on	on
BOOST_ROOT	where to find boost ( if non-standard installation )		/usr/local/apps/boost/1.50.0 ( for the worksation)
PROJ4_PATH	where to find proj4 ( if non-standard installation )		/usr/local/apps/proj4/4.8.0/LP64
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.	where you want to install your Magics library
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE	to select the type of compilation: Production(-O2 -g) Debug (-g)	?	Debug
CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
CMAKE_CXX

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