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author | vrouvrea <vrouvrea@636b058d-ea47-450e-bf9e-a15bfbe3eedb> | 2015-06-18 14:49:07 +0000 |
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committer | vrouvrea <vrouvrea@636b058d-ea47-450e-bf9e-a15bfbe3eedb> | 2015-06-18 14:49:07 +0000 |
commit | 669459903831d01ac1399c2d0fd2111d00392a1b (patch) | |
tree | e073865b8245272626a5066ea9524a01d4f5a170 /src/common | |
parent | 4f18bf5115955c764f4eb15cd600a776f1a4d9ce (diff) | |
parent | d7c885fc4eaa06be6e6b57b8c3bd622b82a20c77 (diff) |
Backmerge of last trunk modifications
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svnroot/gudhi/branches/alphashapes@625 636b058d-ea47-450e-bf9e-a15bfbe3eedb
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diff --git a/src/common/doc/main_page.h b/src/common/doc/main_page.h index 83908905..315aa0ac 100644 --- a/src/common/doc/main_page.h +++ b/src/common/doc/main_page.h @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ The Gudhi library (Geometric Understanding in Higher Dimensions) is a generic C++ library for topological analysis of high-dimensional data whose goal is to provide robust, efficient, flexible and easy to use implementations of -state-of-the-art algorithms and data structures for computational topology. +state-of-the-art algorithms and data structures for computational topology. +This library is part of the <a href="https://project.inria.fr/gudhi/">Gudhi project</a>. The current release of the library allows to use several data-structures for simplicial complexes : simplex tree, Hasse diagram or skeleton-blocker. Several operations can then be done on top of these @@ -17,48 +18,52 @@ We refer to \cite gudhilibrary_ICMS14 for a detailed description of the design of the library. +\section installation Gudhi installation + +As Gudhi is a header only library, there is no need to install the library. + +Examples of Gudhi headers inclusion can be found in \ref demos. + \section compiling Compiling -The library uses c++11 and requires Boost with version 1.48.0 or more recent : http://www.boost.org/. -It is a multiplaform library and compiles on Linux, Mac OSX and Visual Studio 2013. +The library uses c++11 and requires <a href="http://www.boost.org/">Boost</a> with version 1.48.0 or more recent. +It is a multi-platform library and compiles on Linux, Mac OSX and Visual Studio 2013. \subsection gmp GMP: The multi-field persistent homology algorithm requires GMP which is a free library for arbitrary-precision -arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers -The following examples require The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) http://gmplib.org/ +arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. + +The following examples require the <a href="http://gmplib.org/">GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library</a> (GMP) and will not be built if GMP is not installed: - Persistent_cohomology/rips_multifield_persistence - Simplex_tree/simplex_tree_from_alpha_shapes_3 -Having GMP version 4.2 or higher installed is recommended. This library can be obtained from http://gmplib.org/ +Having GMP version 4.2 or higher installed is recommended. \subsection cgal CGAL: CGAL is a C++ library which provides easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms. -The following example requires CGAL https://www.cgal.org/ and will not be built if CGAL is not installed: +The following example requires the <a href="http://www.cgal.org/">Computational Geometry Algorithms Library</a> (CGAL) +and will not be built if CGAL is not installed: - Simplex_tree/simplex_tree_from_alpha_shapes_3 Having CGAL version 4.4 or higher installed is recommended. The procedure to install this library according to your operating system is detailed here http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Manual/installation.html -\section demos Demos and Examples +\subsection demos Demos and examples -To build the library, run the following in a terminal: +To build the demos and libraries, run the following commands in a terminal: \verbatim cd /path-to-gudhi/ mkdir build cd build/ -cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. +cmake .. make \endverbatim - - - - \details \copyright GNU General Public License v3. |