All the software, including the documentation you are viewing here, is contained in a tar file, which you can download by clicking one of the options below:
Tar file of LDPC software (0.85 Megabytes)
Gzipped tar file of LDPC software (0.32 Megabytes)
Once you obtain the tar file (and uncompress it with gunzip if necessary), you should extract the files with the following Unix command:
This will create a source directory called LDPC-2012-02-11, and place all the source, documentation, and other files in this directory.tar xf LDPC-2012-02-11.tar
If you prefer for this directory to be called something else, rename it now, before compiling the programs, since the file randfile in this directory, containing natural random numbers, is accessed according to its path when the programs were compiled.
Once the tar command above has finished, you should change into the newly-created directory, and type
If all goes well, this should compile all the programs (except for some test programs, which can be compiled with make test). You may want to edit the file Makefile before running make in order to change compilation options, such as the optimization level.make
You can run the programs from this source directory, or you can copy them to some other directory by running the LDPC-install shell file. For instance, to install them in a bin directory in your home directory, do the following:
./LDPC-install $HOME/bin
The source directory contains a copy of all the HTML files documenting the software, such as the one you are reading now, with the file index.html being the starting point. It is best to use this local copy when referring to the documentation, rather than get it off the web, since that is faster and also insures that the documentation is for the version that you are using. Just tell your browser to open the URL
where path-to-software is the full path (starting with "/") to the directory where you've put the software.file:path-to-software/index.html
The command
will remove all the compiled programs, as well as the files created when the examples are run, and core, if it exists.make clean