3.1 Requirements

In order to unpack the distribution file, you must have:

GNU tar: available and in your path. CÆSAR has recently been tested with gtar version 1.13.25.
GNU zip: available and in your path. CÆSAR has recently been tested with gzip version 1.3.3.

In order to build and run the program, you must also have:

available and in your path. CÆSAR has recently been tested with gmake version 3.79.1.

available and in your path. CÆSAR has recently been tested with gm4 version 1.4.1.

A Fortran 90/95 compiler

available and in your path. These compilers are currently supported:

Lahey Compiler on Linux.: CÆSAR has recently been tested with Lahey F95 version L6.20c.
Absoft Compiler on Linux.: CÆSAR has recently been tested with Absoft F95 version 8.2.
Absoft Compiler on Darwin.: CÆSAR has recently been tested with Absoft F95 version 8.2.
Sun Workshop Compiler on Solaris.: CÆSAR has recently been tested with Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2 on Solaris 6. (Yes, this is very old. Support will soon be removed from Solaris.)

These compilers have been supported in the past:

MIPSpro Compiler on SGI/IRIX.: CÆSAR was last tested with MIPSpro compiler version 7.4 on IRIX 6.5.

In order to generate the documentation yourself, you must also have:

The Document Package: available and in your path.
html: installed on your system. The latex2html-2002.2.1-6.rpm version is sufficient.
perl: installed on your system and in your path. CÆSAR has recently been tested with perl version 5.8.0.

Alternately, you can retrieve the documentation from the web.