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Official Wirbel download page

This is the official Wirbel download page. New versions will be first published here. Wirbel is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. Downloading and using Wirbel is at your own risk!.

Available Versions

• Current version (Source code): wirbel-0.1.11.tar.gz

New feature in the current version: bitwise operations on integers.

• Previous version (Source code): wirbel-0.1.10.tar.gz
• Previous version (Source code): wirbel-0.1.9.tar.gz
• Previous version (Source code): wirbel-0.1.8.tar.gz

Compatibility

Since Wirbel is at an early stage of development, it has been tested only on a few plattforms. These are currently:

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (PPC prozessor), with developer tools
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (Intel processor), with developer tools

Installation instructions

Unpack the source code:

user@host> tar xzf wirbel-0.1.8.tar.gz

Step into the newly created directory and run the configure-script:

user@host> cd wirbel-0.1.8.tar.gz
user@host> ./configure

If that script runs without error (it has done that if it tells you that is has created some Makefiles) then you can compile the software with:

user@host> make

After that become root and install Wirbel:

root@linux# make install

Wirbel's configure-Script and Makefiles adhere strictly to common GNU conventions. The standard location for installation is under /usr/local. The following components will be installed:

• /usr/local/lib/wirbel - libraries and baustones
• /usr/local/share/doc/wirbel - documentation
• /usr/local/bin - executables

No configuration files and no daemons will be installed. No existing files of your installation will be altered (other than those of previous Wirbel installations).

Compile problems

If you are having problems compiling wirbel on a current linux distribution the reason is most probably that you are missing some fundamental development tool. Please make sure that you have installed the following components (package names here are valid for Ubuntu and might differ on other distributions):

• g++ - The GNU C++ compiler
• make - The GNU version of the "make" utility.
• libreadline5-dev - Development files of readline library
• libc6-dev - GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files

If you want to make changes to Wirbel, you might also want to install some of the Autotools:

• automake - A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
• autoconf - automatic configure script builder
• m4 - a macro processing language

If installing the development software does not help either please email a complete output of your configure run (and make if configure was successful) to wirbel AT mathias DASH kettner DOT de.

Getting started

After having successfully installed Wirbel you might want to have a look into our tutorial, into the test programms in the source code in the subdirectory src, into the few examples installed under /usr/local/share/doc/wirbel/examples and into the library reference installed locally under /usr/local/share/doc/wirbel/html/index.html or online.