GDL on Linux

Go to : Packages, Compilation, script build_gdl.sh, cmake

Use Packaged GDL:

Check the packaged version before installing! Most packages are always well beyond the current evoloution of the code. It may be better to use the releases on Github (including the weekly ones), even if it means installing by hand.

  • Fedora: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gdl actively maintained.

  • Mageia: https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/application/0/arch/x86_64/name/gnudl

  • Debian:

    • https://packages.debian.org/stable/gnudatalanguage

    • https://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnudatalanguage

    • https://packages.debian.org/python3-gdl in ‘unstable’

  • Ubuntu:

    • http://packages.ubuntu.com/gnudatalanguage

    • https://packages.ubuntu.com/python3-gdl

  • Gentoo:

    • https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-lang/gdl

  • Arch:

    • https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnudatalanguage

  • OpenSUSE:

    • https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=science&package=gdl-language

At the moment, you can

  • download the unstable weekly build binaries from https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl/releases/tag/weekly-release, also see #957

Or compile the code.

Two mains paths :

use the script scripts/build_gdl.sh

  • You need a c++ compiler , Cmake (version > 3.2), curl or wget, git

  • You can sudo

  • Download the gdl code (or clone GDL) , and run gdl/scripts/build_gdl.sh several times:

  • build_gdl.sh prep will install the required libraries. (If you are not sudoer you will get a list of libs. your admin. will installed for you.)

  • build_gdl.sh configure will run Cmake to prepare the Make file

  • build_gdl.sh build will build gdl in build.

  • build_gdl.sh install. This is the simplest way to be sure the paths and the links to the libs are OK.

A summary for Ubuntu/Debian (for RH/Fedora, just change apt-get by rpm …):

apt-get install git
apt-get install curl   // December 2021 because of Qhull ...
apt-get install cmake
apt-get install g++
mkdir GDL
cd GDL
git clone --recursive https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl
cd gdl
./scripts/build_gdl.sh prep   <<-- need to be sudo to add set of official packages
./scripts/build_gdl.sh configure
./scripts/build_gdl.sh build
(./scripts/build_gdl.sh check)
./scripts/build_gdl.sh install

then you should be able to start GDL by : ./install/bin/gdl

This efficient and simple way was successfully tested on : Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS (may have a glitch due to Magicks libs), 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS; Debian 9, 10, Sid; Fedora 28

use ‘cmake’

  • The default installs GDL at the end in a root directory. For a custom or user installation use the CMake flag -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=, which can be a absolute or relative path.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl
cd gdl
mkdir build
cd build
cmake --fresh ..
make -j N    # N depending the number of cores you have; getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN
make test
make install

  • The --fresh option is only important after each installation of a requested package that was not found by cmake, it is mandatory to clean the cache before running again cmake.

It is totally possible to compile only a subset of GDL, i.e. :

cmake .. -DOPENMP=OFF  -DHDF=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install

Finally, you can run GDL with

gdl

or for user installs

gdl/install/bin/gdl