Netgen 1.5 is distribution code. Compiled without the Tcl
interface (not recommended), it should compile and run like
the original version (which had no version number). However, the
"make" process has been substantially cleaned up, and converted to
GNU autoconf.
The Tcl version of Netgen compiles and runs by default.
The Tcl version takes advantage of both the ability to script the
simulation procedure, including some scripts to ease the
complicated process of LVS by reducing most cases to a one-line
command.
The compilation procedure should be immediately recognizable
to anyone familiar with GNU autoconf:
| ./configure |
| make |
| make install |
|
The main prerequisite for netgen is Tcl/Tk. Currently (2017),
this means Tcl/Tk version 8.6. For OS versions with packaging
systems (e.g., "yum" or "apt-get", etc.), be sure to install
the development version of Tcl/Tk, which usually has
package names of "tcl-devel" and "tk-devel", respectively,
although the names may vary according to the packaging system.
Netgen has no configuration options specific to the application.
It uses the typical configuration options that are part of the
GNU autoconf system. To see the available options, use:
The most likely option to use is to set the install prefix
to a non-default location. To install into a user home
directory, for example, you may want to use something like:
| ./configure --prefix=$HOME/cad |
|
which would put the netgen executable into
$HOME/cad/bin/netgen and run-time files into
$HOME/cad/lib/netgen.
