GTKWave BETA INSTALLATION FOR LINUX AND UNIX

Installing from binaries

   At this time GTKWave is available as binaries for x86 Linux systems with
glibc2 and gtk+ installed. The binaries were built on RedHat v7.1 and tested on
RedHat v6.2, and they should be usable on most recent Linux distributions.
GTKWave also requiers libzvt, a terminal widget, which is part of the Gnome
Desktop.  If you have not installed Gnome, please see the README for more
information about libzvt.

   To install GTKWave under Linux from the binaries, download
gtkwave-beta-linux-i386-glibc2.tar.gz into /tmp.  As root, run the following
commands:
	cd /usr/local
   	tar xfvz /tmp/gtkwave-beta-linux-i386-glibc2.tar.gz

   GTKWave will now be installed in /usr/local/bin/gtk-wave. The system-wide
configuration files can be found in /usr/local/share/wave.  Each user who will
be using GTKWave should create a .wave subdirectory in their home directory if
one does not already exist. GTKWave is now ready to run.

   You may also install GTKWave in another location if you wish.  If you do so,
set and export the WAVEROOT environment variable to the directory in which
the system-wide configuration files (anntab, Defaults, and wavemenu.def)
are installed, so that GTKWave can find them.

Building and installing from source code

   GTKWave can be built from source code using the standard GNU tools. 
It should be possible to compile and run it under any version of Unix or
Linux, but the installation scripts do not yet check for all necessary
dependencies, including WFDB and libzvt.  You should make sure all necessary
libraries are installed (see README-UNIX.TXT for more information).

To compile and install GTKWave from the sources, download
gtkwave-beta.src.tar.gz into a directory of your choice, and run the
following commands (root privileges are not required):
	tar xfvz gtkwave-beta.src.tar.gz
	cd wave
	./configure
	make

To install GTKWave into /usr/local, you will probably need root privileges.
As root, execute these commands:
	make install
	mkdir /usr/local/share/wave
	cp ./src/Defaults ./src/anntab ./src/wavemenu.def /usr/local/share/wave

Please let us know if you attempt to compile GTKWave on a platform for which
no binaries are available.

Running GTKWave

Before running GTKWave the first time, create a .wave directory within your
home directory:

	cd
	mkdir .wave

GTKWave uses this directory to store customized versions of its startup files
(Defaults, wavemenu.def).  Future releases of GTKWave will create this
directory automatically (after asking for permission to do so) if it does
not exist.

To run GTKWave under Unix, type:

	gtkwave

for a summary of command-line arguments and options.

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Isaac C. Henry
ihenry@physionet.org

George B. Moody
george@mit.edu
20 July 2001