Installing the program

You can get the program in source code form as well as in binary form. I suggest you try the web page http://pdnmesh.sourceforge.net/ first. Depending on your operating system, there might be binary versions available. However, they may be old and outdated. Source distribution will be in the form of a gzipped tar archive called pdnmesh-*.*.*.tar.gz, where the asterix will signify the available version such as 0.0.4. For compilation, an ANSI C compiler is required. GCC is ideal for this. The GUI is written in GTK. So you must have GTK and GTKGLExt installed (Sorry KDE Fans!). Apart from this, you need an implementation of OpenGL installed. In Linux and *BSD, you can use Mesa for this. In any UNIX like platform, the X11 header files are also required.

The basic commands for compilation in a UNIX like platform are:

 $ gzip -dc pdnmesh-*.*.*.tar.gz | tar xvf -
 $ cd pdnmesh-*.*.*/
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ make install
 

The program will be installed in /usr/local/ directory by default. In order to override this, give the option --prefix=/path/to/install to ./configure. For more information on installation, please refer the documentation supplied with the program and documentation about autoconf and automake.