Currently there are no binary releases available and needs to be installed from source. The default parameters should 'just work' but you may need to set the path to the libraries and executables on some flavours.

See the general installation guide for details.

I created this instruction when I installed SPDLib around November 2011 in my virtualbox. The operating system I'm using is Ubuntu 11.04. It is also possible to copy the virtual harddrive to anoter physical machine and use it there without reconfiguration.

Install python with something similar to below.

sudo apt-get install python-dev

sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev

sudo apt-get install cmake

tar xvfj boost_1_47_0.tar.bz2
sh ./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=all --with-python=python
sudo ./bjam install

Download from: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl

tar xvfz gsl-1.15.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install

Download from: http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download from: ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src

./configure --enable-cxx --prefix=/usr/local/
make 
sudo make install

Download from: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download from: http://www.gdal.org/

./configure --with-static-proj4=/usr/local/ --with-python
make
sudo make install

cmake CMakeLists.txt
make
sudo make install

sudo apt-get install m4

Download from: http://gmplib.org/

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mpfr/ More information: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr.html

./configure
make
sudo make install

It seem to be required by CGAL, but the first time I didn't install qt4 and it worked anyway. This one is anyway required if you want to use SPDPointsViewer later.

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev

Download from: http://www.cgal.org/

cmake CMakeLists.txt
make
sudo make install

Require that you have Mercurial Hg installed.

hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/spdlib/code spdlib
cmake CMakeLists.txt
make
sudo make install

Go to the subfolder python

cmake CMakeLists.txt
make
sudo make install

PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/site-packages

gedit ~/.profile

export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:/usr/local/site-packages

Require that you have installed qt4.

svn co https://spdpointsviewer.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/spdpointsviewer spdpointsviewer
cd spdpointsviewer/trunk
cmake CMakeLists.txt
make
sudo cp SPDPointsViewer /usr/local/bin/