X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=37d84a9e48b3247f8b807d7d983e182e17bb1204;hb=ccb7838cb53bf0ca6917a77f7991d940057c12db;hp=f202463b76f788401442d6f9fb29d7ea7a5e429d;hpb=6fe3ffa44a450bd83f6df6b6ca4a200b97a47936;p=samtools.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f202463..37d84a9 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,24 +1,30 @@ System Requirements =================== -Most of SAMtools functionality only depends on zlib which is included in -this source code package. Compiling the alignment viewer further -requires the GNU ncurses library , -which comes with Mac OS X and most of the modern Linux/Unix -distributions. If you do not have this library installed, you can still -compile the rest of SAMtools by manually modifying two lines in Makefile -as is described in the Makefile. +SAMtools depends on the zlib library . Version 1.2.3+ is +preferred and with 1.2.3+ you can compile razip and use it to compress a FASTA +file. SAMtools' faidx is able to index a razip-compressed FASTA file to save +diskspace. Older zlib also works with SAMtools, but razip cannot be compiled. + +The text-based viewer (tview) requires the GNU ncurses library +, which comes with Mac OS X and most of +the modern Linux/Unix distributions. If you do not have this library installed, +you can still compile the rest of SAMtools by manually changing: +`-D_CURSES_LIB=1' to `-D_CURSES_LIB=0' at the line starting with `DFLAGS=', and +comment out the line starting with `LIBCURSES='. Compilation =========== -Type `make' to compile samtools. +Type `make' to compile samtools. If you have zlib >= 1.2.2.1, you can compile +razip with `make razip'. Installation ============ -Simply copy `samtools' and other executables/scripts in `misc' to a -location you want (e.g. a directory in your $PATH). No further -configurations are required. +Copy `samtools', `bcftools/bcftools' and other executables/scripts in `misc' to +a location you want (e.g. a directory in your $PATH). You may also copy +`samtools.1' and `bcftools/bcftools.1' to a directory in your $MANPATH such +that the `man' command may find the manual.