The Metview source bundle is a single package containing the source code for Metview, Magics, GRIB API and Emoslib. It allows for a simpler way to build and install Metview and the ECMWF software on which it depends. Instead of downloading, configuring, building, testing and installing each package separately, the bundle allows these steps to be performed for just one software package - the bundle itself. Building the bundle triggers the building of each of the component packages automatically, and they will 'see' each other, so for example Metview will be linked with the GRIB_API which is part of the bundle, with no need to point it to an already-installed version.
Please follow the general CMake instructions below, and refer to the installation instructions of the individual packages for the tables of available CMake options for each. Options given to CMake will be passed to every component package of the bundle. Certain of these are set by default, for example Magics will be built with Metview and BUFR support enabled.
Note that the bundle has an additional CMake option:
| CMake Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| ENABLE_EXPOSE_SUBPACKAGES | Configures the sub-packages to be installed into the same directory level as Metview. If set to OFF, they will be installed into a sub-directory; this option could be useful in order to avoid clashing with pre-existing installations of, for example, GRIB_API. | ON |
The following table lists the dependencies that the bundle requires to be built from source. Please note, if you install these package from source you also might have to install the respective "-devel" packages.
| Compilers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| C++ | http://gcc.gnu.org/ | ||
| Fortran | http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/ | ||
| Utilities | |||
make | http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ | ||
| Third party libraries | |||
| Qt | http://www.qt.io/ | if Metview's user interface is required (version 4.6.2 or later of Qt is needed). Note that on some systems it is also necessary to install the libQtWebKit-devel development package (it may have different names on different systems) | |
| gdbm | http://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/ | ||
| bash | https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ | ||
| ImageMagick | http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php | if Metview's user interface is required | |
| proj | http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ | ||
| netcdf 4 | http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ | Please note: You also need to install the legacy C++ interface and HDF5 | |
| cairo | https://www.cairographics.org/ | if png/pdf support needed | |
| pango | http://www.pango.org/ | if png/pdf support needed | |
| expat | http://expat.sourceforge.net/ | ||