Template:Installing libctl

From AbInitio

Instead of using Guile directly, we separated much of the user interface code into a package called libctl, in the hope that this might be more generally useful. libctl automatically handles the communication between the program and Guile, converting complicated data structures and so on, to make it even easier to use Guile to control scientific applications. Download libctl from the libctl page, unpack it, and run the usual configure, make, make install sequence. You'll also want to browse the libctl manual, as this will give you a general overview of what the user interface will be like.

If you are not the system administrator of your machine, and/or want to install libctl somewhere else (like your home directory), you can do so with the standard --prefix=dir option to configure (the default prefix is /usr/local). In this case, however, you'll need to specify the location of the libctl shared files for the MPB or Meep package, using the --with-libctl=dir/share/libctl option to our configure script.