User Software :: pyBDSM

The following packages are required in order to build pyBDSM:

• Python
• NumPy
• WCSLIB
• CFITSIO
• port3 – this is part of pyBDSM now
• minpack – this is part of pyBDSM now

The following packages are required in order to run pyBDSM:

• SciPy
• pyfits
• fortran stuff (to make faster)
• f2py

1. Check out source code from the LUS repository
2. Run the bootstrap script in the build directory:

   cd build
   ./bootstrap

3. Build and install pyBDSM:

   make bdsm

   This will also go through the list of required packages and check whether they are installed.

• _py2fbdsm – Write pyBDSM output to fBDSM format
• _pytesselate – Fortran implementation of Tesselation
• _cbdsm – Main python module to be imported

• Does he want to write stuff (varybeta etc) in C and take it in thro boost ?

.                              .. $LOFARSOFT
|-- release
|   |-- bin                    .. $PATH
|   |-- include
|   `-- lib
|       `-- python             .. $PYTHONPATH
|           |-- _cbdsm.so
|           `-- bdsm           .. Installation location of Python scripts
|               |-- image.py  
|               |
`-- src
    `-- BDSM
        |-- doc                ..  Documentation directory
        |-- implement          ..  contains source code compiled into library and executables
        |   |-- bdsm           ..  original Fortran BDSM
        |   |-- minpack
        |   |-- port3
        |   `-- pybdsm     ..  C-based Boost.Python wrappers
        `-- scripts        ..  Python scripts

• fortran and c stuff to be compiled into libraries are in implement/pybdsm
• anaamika is in implement/bdsm
• port3 etc are in implement
• executables are in release/bin and other stuff are in release/lib, release/includes and release/lib/python (pythonpath)
• doc is in doc

>>> import bdsm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/lars/usg/code/trunk/release/lib/python/bdsm/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
    from preprocess import Op_preprocess
  File "/home/lars/usg/code/trunk/release/lib/python/bdsm/preprocess.py", line 8, in <module>
    import _cbdsm
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_cbdsm)