Building and Installing in a UNIX-like Environment using Jam

This page describes build and installation under the following environments.

For using in the Gumstix embedded Linux device, see http://docwiki.gumstix.org/GPSTk.

The following procedure will build and install the GPSTk.

1. Ensure that prerequisites such as jam have been installed.
2. Download the GPSTk source distribution.
3. Extract the GPSTk tarball. For example, using GNU tar

   tar xvzf gpstk.tar.gz

4. Change into the gpstk/dev directory (if using Subversion) or the gpstk/ directory (if using the tarball)and type

   jam

5. To build the source documentation using doxygen:

   doxygen 

6. To install GPSTk as a system library in /usr/local, assume root privileges then execute

   jam install

   To install to a different directory, define the environment variable PREFIX to point to the root of the installation.

Building and Installing in a UNIX-like Environment using GNU make

The following procedure will build and install the GPSTk using recent, standard GNU build tools. The build has been successfully tested using the following tools and versions:

To check the version of the tool you are using, use the GNU standard version option. For example

autoconf --version

If you successfully build the GPSTk using other versions of the tools, or if you successfully build in a new environment, please let us know.

The following procedure will build and install the GPSTK.

1. Ensure that prerequisites, except jam, have been installed.
2. Download the GPSTk distribution.
3. Extract the GPSTk tarball. For example, using GNU tar

   tar xvzf gpstk.tar.gz

4. Change into the gpstk/dev directory (if using Subversion) or the gpstk/ directory (if using the tarball) and execute these commands:

   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure
   make

5. To build the library documentation using doxygen:

   doxygen 

6. To install GPSTk as a system library in /usr/local, assume root privileges then execute

   make install