LINK depends on the following software:
ftp://kaolin.unice.fr/pub
or ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/fox/stk
,
and runs on many Unix systems. Ports are being made to various Microsoft
Windows versions, and Link will follow eventually.
There is a file called INSTALL in the root directory of the LINK distribution giving the installation details. Often the process will be as simple as the following:
%./configure %make %make libs
However, small changes to a file called Config.mk may be necessary. NOTE: Link uses some large template instantiation files. This puts a strain on PC's running linux which will probably require the user or administrator to increase the swap space. The compilation may take many hours on machines with 16MB or less. The setup will be improved to better accomodate PC installations, possibly in the near future.
The disk space used by the system varies. If debugging information is requested, all object files and libraries are left to sit around, and the executable is not stripped, the distribution can approach 100MB. However, if -O2 is used during compilation and the executable is stripped, the system can take approximately 27MB. From there, the removal of object files and libraries drastically reduces the space requirements.