User Software :: Data Access Library (DAL)

As of Feb 15, 2001 there are two ways in which to retrieve, build and install the DAL:

1. From the original source repository on Github.
   In order to build the DAL as a stand-alone library, clone directly from the repository on Github:

   git clone https://github.com/nextgen-astrodata/DAL.git DAL

   Once your checkout from the Git repository is complete, follow the instructions as described in the section “Configuration and build” below.

2. As part of the LOFAR User Software (LUS).
   If you want (or need) to use the DAL as part of the LUS software collection, check out a working copy of the code base from the LUS Subversion repository

   svn co http://usg.lofar.org/svn/code/trunk lofarsoft

   Once the checkout is complete (assuming bash as shell):

   cd lofarsoft
   export LOFARSOFT=`pwd`
   . ./devel_common/scripts/init.sh
   cd build
   ./bootstrap
   make dal

   By default build of the DAL will be carried out from a source tar-archive which comes as part of the software collection.

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