LIGOtools Package: lalapps

This package contains a collection of applications built upon the LAL library.
See the documentation for descriptions of LALApps applications and utility functions.

LALApps Librarian: Jolien Creighton
LIGOtools contributor: Peter Shawhan

Version 3.0

Release date (as a LIGOtools package): October 14, 2003

Notes

This is a very old release of lalapps. Therefore, as of October 2005, this package is not distributed via 'ligotools_update'. If for some reason you want to install this package, you can do so manually using the distribution files at the bottom of this page.
The precompiled binary distribution files for this version (3.0) of the lal package were built as follows:
- For Solaris, the build was done on a machine running Solaris 9 using gcc 2.95.2 .
- For Linux, the build was done on a machine running Red Hat 7.3 using gcc 2.96 . If the binary distribution is installed on a machine running Red Hat 9, there might be problems linking against the libraries, depending on what functions are called.
All LALApps programs have names beginning with "lalapps_". Therefore, you can get a list of such programs by typing "ls $LIGOTOOLS/bin/lalapps_*".
If you want to create your own applications, you will find some useful utility functions, etc., in the header file lalapps.h and object file lalapps.o, which are located in $LIGOTOOLS/include and $LIGOTOOLS/lib, respectively.
There is a "share" directory containing some files used by the programs in this package. When the package is installed, this directory is: $LIGOTOOLS/packages/lalapps/active/share/lalapps .

Documentation

LALApps Documentation (pdf)

Distribution files

Normally, you should use the ligotools_update utility to download and install new packages or new versions of existing packages, since it automatically figures out what packages need to be updated. However, if you wish to do so manually, then click on the name of the appropriate distribution file (below) with the right mouse button and choose "Save Link As..." from the popup menu. Note that you must save it on your disk with exactly the same name as it has on this web site. After the file has been downloaded, do:
ligotools_install <file>
where <file> is the file which was downloaded. This procedure will be quicker if the environment variable LIGOTOOLS is set to the main LIGOtools directory.

Binary distribution for Solaris: lalapps_3.0_SunOS.tar.gz (12149 kb)
Binary distribution for Intel Linux: lalapps_3.0_Linux.tar.gz (36724 Mb)
Source distribution: lalapps_3.0_SOURCE.tar.gz (18069 kb)
This should build properly on any Unix system, as long as the LIGOtools packages Fr and fftw are already installed and active. It takes a long time to build.