file: INSTALL G. Moody 25 February 2006
Last revised: 21 July 2013
Installing ecgpuwave under GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X, MS-Windows, or Unix
1. Install the GNU Fortran compiler, gfortran. (See ecgpuwave-1.3.1 if you
have the older g77 compiler.)
2. Install the WFDB Software Package (freely available from PhysioNet,
see http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/wfdb.shtml), if you have not
already done so.
3. Create a working directory for compiling ecgpuwave, copy the files
from this directory into it, and enter that directory.
4. Compile and install ecgpuwave using the command:
make install
You may need root (admin) privileges to complete this step successfully.
If you don't have root privileges, you can still compile ecgpuwave without
installing it by typing 'make'; you will then need to move the executable
file (ecgpuwave.exe on MS-Windows, ecgpuwave on all other platforms) into
a directory in your PATH before running it.
5. Test ecgpuwave using the command:
make check
In this two-part test, ecgpuwave analyzes the one-minute WFDB sample
record 100s, and its output is compared with the output expected for
ecgpuwave when running on an x86 CPU. Test 1 succeeds if there are no
differences at all, and test 2 succeeds if all discrepancies are one
sample interval or less.
Since ecgpuwave makes heavy use of floating point arithmetic, the waveform
boundaries it determines when running on another CPU type may occasionally
vary by one sample interval from the expected output for an x86 CPU. On the
PPC-Mac OS X platform, it is normal for test 1 to fail, but test 2 should
succeed. If test 2 fails, this observation should be reported.
For additional information about using ecgpuwave, visit:
http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/ecgpuwave/
This information is also included here as 'ecgpuwave.1' (in Unix 'man' format).