[cellml-discussion] installation questions

[Alan Garny]

> I'm a newbie, wanting to familiarize myself with CellML.  So I go to
> the cellml.org/downloads page, download the DOM API (1.4) and read in
> the README that libxml2 is a prereq to compile.  No problem.
> However, I then encounter the following:
> 
> configure: error: GSL CBLAS library required
> 
> After installing GSL, I can successfully configure, but then get:
> 
> $ make
> SAVEDIR=`pwd` && \
> mkdir -p ./interfaces && \
> cd ./interfaces && \
>   omniidl -p $SAVEDIR/./simple_interface_generators/omniidl_be -
> bsimple_cpp $SAVEDIR/interfaces/DOM_APISPEC.idl && \
> cd $SAVEDIR
> /bin/sh: line 1: omniidl: command not found
> 
> 
> So, one question - is there a doc that might shed some light on
> building/using the DOM API?  Or is this not even a good starting
> point for a newbie?

Hi Randy,

There is some documentation about building the CellML DOM API on Linux (some
instructions are available for various flavours of Linux). You can find it
at https://svn.physiomeproject.org/svn/physiome/CellML_DOM_API/trunk/docs/.

Hope that helps, Alan