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The advantages of using shared libraries are that the size of executables will be smaller and that a different version of Magics can be used without recompiling the executable (if the libraries are binary compatible).
Requirements
| Compilers | |||||
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| C++ | http://gcc.gnu.org/ | ||||
| Fortran | http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/ | If fortran or bufr support needed | |||
| Utilities | |||||
make | http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ | ||||
| cmake | http://www.cmake.org/ | version 2.8.4 minimum | |||
| Python Support | |||||
| swig | http://www.swig.org/ | to generate the python interface | |||
| python | http://python-numpywww.python.org/ | ||||
| python-numpy | http://www.numpy.org/ | ||||
| Third party libraries | |||||
| proj | Proj4 to handle projections | ||||
| boost | used for coastlines | ||||
| netcdf | if netcdf support neeed | ||||
| pango | if png/jpeg support needed | ||||
| Ecmwf libraries | |||||
| grib-api | if grib support needed | ||||
| odb-api | if odb support needed | ||||
| emoslib | if bufr support needed | ||||
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