YGSL is a Yorick plug-in to bring some special functions of the GSL (GNU Scientific Library) into Yorick.

In short, building and installing the plug-in can be as quick as:

cd $BUILD_DIR
$SRC_DIR/configure
make
make install

where $BUILD_DIR is the build directory (at your convenience) and $SRC_DIR is the source directory of the plug-in code. The build and source directories can be the same in which case, call ./configure to configure for building.

If the plug-in has been properly installed, it is sufficient to use any function of YGSL to automatically load the plug-in. You may force the loading of the plug-in by something like:

#include "gsl.i"

or

require, "gsl.i";

in your code.

More detailled installation explanations are given below.

1. You must have Yorick and the GSL (GNU Scientific Library) installed on your machine. (See the "Links" section below.)

2. Unpack the software code somewhere or clone the Git repository.

3. Configure for compilation. There are two possibilities:

   For an in-place build, go to the source directory, say $SRC_DIR, of the plug-in code and run the configuration script:

   cd $SRC_DIR
   ./configure
   

   To see the configuration options, call:

   ./configure --help
   

   To compile in a different build directory, say $BUILD_DIR, create the build directory, go to the build directory and run the configuration script:

   mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
   cd $BUILD_DIR
   $SRC_DIR/configure
   

   where $SRC_DIR is the path to the source directory of the plug-in code. To see the configuration options, call:

   $SRC_DIR/configure --help
   

4. Compile the code:

   make
   

5. Install the plug-in in Yorick directories:

   make install
   

YGSL is open source sofware released under the CeCILL-C license http://www.cecill.info/index.en.html.

YGSL was a component of Yeti (a group of Yorick plugins), it is now a standalone plug-in. You can find more informations about Yeti at http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/labo/perso/eric.thiebaut/yeti.html.

• Yorick: http://github.com/LLNL/yorick/;
• GSL (GNU Scientific Library): http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/;