Installation and Usage Notes for the Core Wrapper Library (Source Distribution) 1. Installation a. Uncompress and unbundle the distribution using the following command: zcat core-wrapper-vX.XXX-XXX.tar.gz | tar -xf - The result of this command is a subdirectory core-wrapper-vX.XXX-XXX in the current directory. It contains subdirectories of various source modules. 2. Building the Application a. Position in the core-wrapper-vX.XXX-XXX directory: cd core-wrapper-vX.XXX-XXX b. Set up the environment Edit the Makefile in order to set up the locations of appropriate tools. c. Build the library Type "make" to see the list of supported targets. Select your target and invoke "make" command. For example to compile for Linux with gcc 4.1.x, type: make compile_lnx_41 The application dynamic library, CorePyWrap.so, will be placed in the "lib" subdirectory. This library can be used in Python via the import statement.