Open josephwb opened 7 years ago
Sorry for the confusions. One can use sudo apt-get install vtk6 sudo apt-get install vtkdata or download vtk from http://www.vtk.org/download/ if one need a different version. We will update the file to clarify it.
The file README.txt is not for installation. It is to set up an development environment of TreeScaper. If only need to use TreeScaper, you could double click the binary "TreeScaper" or go to the directory of TreeScaper and use command "./TreeScaper".
I cannot launch TreeScaper which is why I was trying to compile it myself.
Note the "CLAPACK" comment above: it is not clear how this should be obtained for Linux (or Mac).
I do not understand:
The file README.txt is not for installation.
Are the installation instructions available elsewhere? I could not find anything else.
Sorry about the inconvenience. We hope that users are not necessary to compile code by themself. Therefore, we didn't keep the README.txt file up to date. We will update it ASAP. Thank you for letting me know.
I meant that users don't have to follow the README.txt file to install TreeScaper. One can just double click it and run it. I didn't realize that you want to compile the code. Sorry about the confusion.
CLAPACK is a standard linear algebra library which can be download from http://www.netlib.org/clapack/. You could follow the instruction on the webpage and compile the code.
Using either 1) configure or 2) separate Makefiles would make things a lot easier.
The README.txt states:
but that is not true; all instructions are emphatically mac-specific! vtk can be installed simply with:
The Mac/Linux instructions do not mention clapack, but it is apparently required:
(I have not yet found how to easily install that in Linux, but will post here if I do).
As well, instructions like:
are unclear: all possible values are already in the file. This sounds like things must be manually toggled. A naive user will not know what to do.
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean:
Change what to what?
Sorry if this comes off crotchety, I am just trying to help. But I was hoping to play with this over lunch. :bowtie: