Shell script to build the NAIF CSPICE Toolkit as
a shared library (libcspice.so[.1]) and dynamically linked executables instead of the normal
static libraries and static linking used by the the upstream distribution.
Author: Attila Kovacs <attila.kovacs[AT]cfa.harvard.edu>
Version: 0.9
You can get the CSPICE toolkit from https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit_C.html. Just grab
cspice.tar.Z for any of the platforms (these contain pre-built binaries, which we will not use
anyway). Then unpack it in a location of choice:
$ tar xf <path-to-tar>/cspice.tar.Z(Note that the tar.Z extension indicates a compressed archive, but it is not in fact compressed,
hence no decompression flags for the tar command).
The build uses the standard CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, and LDFLAGS options for the precompiler,
compiler, and linker, respectively. So, you can define these in the shell prior to running the
build to further customize the build for your need. E.g.:
$ export CFLAGS="-O2 -g"To use, simply run this script from the parent directory of the unpacked cspice package. E.g.:
$ <path-to-script>/cspice-sharedlib.shAfter a successful build, you can install the shared libraries and executables into their final
locations (e.g. /usr/lib and /usr/bin respectively). Simply copy the contents of cspice/lib/
to the designated location for the .so library files (and make sure that location is included in
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable), then copy the executables under cspice/exe/ into
the location of choice.
Copyright (C)2024 Attila Kovacs