following programs installed:
<ul>
<li> A fairly complete C++ compiler. We use
- <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">egcs1.1.2 and
+ <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org" target="_top">egcs1.1.2 and
gcc2.95</a> but other compilers might work as well. egcs1.0
and older gcc versions will not work, however. (We are
interested in writing portable C++, so if you find
<li> Perl: any Perl 5.x version should work.
- <li> Make: we use <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU make</a>,
+ <li> Make: we use <a href="http://www.gnu.org" target="_top">GNU make</a>,
version 3.75. We also use GNU make 3.78 which has much
better support for parallel builds, so you may want to
consider this version if you have a multiprocessor
header files, you only need Perl installed.
<li> In case you want the printable documentation, however, you
- need <a href="http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~doc++/">Doc++</a>
+ need <a href="http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~doc++/" target="_top">Doc++</a>
and LaTeX installed. It is known that Doc++
version 3.3.13 is broken and generates invalid Tex, but
3.4 is OK. Note that the printed documentation of the
<li> The library generates output in formats readable by
GNUPLOT,
- <a href="http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/XCM/gmv/">GMV
+ <a href="http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/XCM/gmv/" target="_top">GMV
(general mesh viewer)</a>,
- <a href="http://www.avs.com">AVS Explorer</a>,
- <a href="http://www.povray.org">Povray</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.avs.com" target="_top">AVS Explorer</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.povray.org" target="_top">Povray</a>,
and directly to Encapsulated Postscript. GNUPLOT and a
postscript viewer (for EPS) should be available almost
everywhere, GMV is freely available for most Unix
The most important result of <code>./configure</code> is the
creation of the file <code>common/Make.global_options</code>. This
file contains compiler options, paths, etc which you may want to
- use in the <a href="development/index.html">Makefiles of your own
+ use in the <a href="development/index.html" target="_top">Makefiles of your own
projects</a>. It is definitely a good
idea to include it into your Makefile, to allow using the same
flags for compilation between library files and the files of your
<p>
To support multithreading in a cross-platform way, we use the
- <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html">ACE
+ <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html" target="_top">ACE
(Adaptive Communications Environment)</a> library. This needs
to be installed separately, and the path to its installation
directory needs to be given to this option.
Some information beyond what is covered in the documentation of
the library may be found on the
- <a href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~deal">homepage of
+ <a href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~deal" target="_top">homepage of
<acronym>deal.II</acronym></a>. If you don't find something there,
feel free to ask if you have any problems with deal.II. If a
question is of general interest, you may want to use our mailing list,