Supported systems (14-feb-11)

GILDAS compiles successfully and is (at least minimally) tested on the following systems:

The reference system at IRAM is a Scientific Linux 5.5 running on a 64 bits PC (x86_64 processor), using the Intel Fortran-90 compiler (ifort) version 11.1. Please consider that powerpc-based Mac OSX machines are not supported anymore. Please refer to the Download section to get the necessary information to build Gildas.

Successful building of GILDAS binaries on a UNIX/Linux/OSX system minimally requires:

• Bourne compatible shell (sh, ksh, bash, etc...) for build purpose only; the end-users can then use the GILDAS programs from csh–like or Bourne-like shells;
• GNU make for build purpose;
• NROFF for on-line help building;
• a C compiler (either GCC or the native C compiler);
• a Fortran-90/95/2003 compiler:
  • the GNU Fortran compiler (gfortran) is now stable enough to compile Gildas. Version 4.3.0 is the very minimum to be used, but newer should be prefered because i) it must be thread-safe and ii) we have asked for a bug fix which is now included in the versions 4.4.6, 4.5.2 and 4.6.0 (and newer).
  • For Linux on PC, Intel distributes a F90 compiler (ifort), that can be freely downloaded for non-commercial purposes). Note that the non-commercial license is so restrictive that all chances are you do not qualify for it. Old versions of Ifort should be discarded because they are not thread-safe (i.e. 9 and lower). Versions 10.0 and higher should run correctly.
  • g95 is now too old to compile Gildas, and chances to see a new release are getting smaller and smaller.
• X11 binaries and headers for plots;
• GTK+ binaries and development package. It is usually found on the Linux distributions repositories under the name gtk+-2.0 and gtk+-2.0-devel. These packages are expected to be found thanks to the pkg-config tool.
• cfitsio if you need MIRA.
• Python >= 2.4 and its array module Numpy if you plan to use the Gildas-Python binding, Python >= 2.6 if you plan to use the Weeds package in CLASS.

Successful building of PDF/HTML documentation minimally requires recent versions of:

• ps2epsi;
• epstopdf;
• latex (version 2e with makeidx, graphicx and html package).
• latex2html;
• pdflatex;

For your convenience, we distribute compiled PDF/HTML documentation in case you do not have those tools.