lrose-solo3

May 5, 2023 · View on GitHub

This is version 3 of the NCAR solo polar radar viewer and editor.

This is effectively the the soloii application, converted to C++. It depends on updated version of the gtk libraries.

DOI

The DOI for lrose-solo3 is:

https://doi.org/10.5065/sv4e-7z49

The DOI entry information is stored at:

https://search.datacite.org/works/10.5065/sv4e-7z49

1. Prepare

Most good, up-to date LINUX distributions should work.

Recommended distributions are:

Debian
Ubuntu (based on Debian)
RedHat
Centos (based on RedHat)
Fedora (based on RedHat)

First, you will need to install the required packages.

RedHat

On a RedHat-based system, run the following:

yum install -y epel-release && \
yum install -y tcsh wget git \
    tkcvs emacs rsync python \
    m4 make libtool autoconf automake \
    gcc gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran glibc-devel \
    libX11-devel libXext-devel \
    libpng-devel libtiff-devel zlib-devel \
    expat-devel libcurl-devel \
    flex-devel fftw3-devel \
    gtk+-devel gtkmm24-devel glib-devel glibmm24-devel  \
    bzip2-devel \
    hdf5-devel netcdf-devel \
    xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-apps \
    rpm-build redhat-rpm-config \
    rpm-devel rpmdevtools \
    atk-2.28.1-2.el7.x86_64 \
    libXrandr-devel-1.5.1-2.el7.x86_64

Debian / Ubuntu

On a Debian-based system, run the following:

apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y \
    git gcc g++ gfortran cmake rsync mlocate \
    automake make libtool pkg-config python \
    libcurl3-dev curl \
    libfl-dev libbz2-dev libx11-dev libpng-dev \
    libgtk2.0-dev gtkmm-2.4-dev \
    glib-2.0-dev glibmm-2.4-dev \
    libfftw3-dev libexpat1-dev \
    libgeographic-dev libeigen3-dev libzip-dev \
    libnetcdf-dev netcdf-bin libhdf5-dev hdf5-tools

2. Downloading

Create a working directory for building the distribution:

  mkdir ~/solo3_build
  cd ~/solo3_build

Download the source release

  git clone https://github.com/NCAR/lrose-solo3

3. Build

Run configure to create the makefiles:

  cd ~/solo3_build/lrose-solo3
  autoreconf --install
  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

The do the build:

  make -j 4

4. Install

  make install

The following apps will be installed in /usr/local/bin:

  solo3 (previously soloii)
  xltrs3 (previously xltrsii)
  ddex3 (previously ddex)
  nx_reblock3 (previously nx_reblock)

5. For Mac Users - install using brew

See Homebrew install

6. Change Log - including soloii versions

This includes the soloii versions, the predecessor of solo3.

update on 2014/07/28

Increased line buffer size in dor_print_sswb() to keep things from crashing if SSWB contains absurd d_start_time or d_stop_time, e.g., with date from year 200000000.

update on 2014/07/11

PIRAQX updates for better handling of Rapid-scan DOW data.
Homebrew improvements for Mac.
Fixed bugs in reading color tables from text files.
Fixed a buffer overflow issue which causes crashes on Ubuntu 14.04 systems.
Better handling when there are sweepfile header load failures.

update on 2013/12/08

In persusal/sp_lists.cc removed unneeded include of <bits/localefwd.h>.

initial version 3.00 (2012/05/14):

upgraded to C++
64-bit native support
GUI components modified to use gtkmm widgets

version 1.20 (2010/12/6):

fixed memory overruns which were causing problems when changing display configuration, e.g., when loading saved configuration files

version 1.19:

actually tell people that we cannot display floating-point DORADE data, rather than just silently drawing a bunch of gray
bump maximum gate count we handle from 1500 to 8192
disable tape I/O on systems without /usr/include/sys/mtio.h (e.g., Mac Snow Leopard)
add "-m32" flag to compilation and linking for builds on OS X, to force making 32-bit executables

version 1.18

Introduce first-cut support for Mac OS X. Solo3 has been tested briefly (on a Leopard x86 system), and will display and perform basic edits on DORADE sweep files.

version 1.17

For xltrsii, fixed a problem where the Nyquist velocity written into sweep files was retained from sweep to sweep, even when PRT changed between sweeps.

Added directions for building on 64-bit systems. Added xltrsii support for PIRAQX rev 2 data (generated by newer ARC HiQ systems). Added documentation for PIRAQX options in translate/README.xltrsii.html.