Software Installation

The DDT software is delivered as an RPM package. If you want to build manually, follow the instructions below.

Building and Installing DDT

To build the software the repository should be cloned into a subdirectory ddt.

waf configure --mode=release build

It will build all libraries and applications into a “build”-subdirectory of the repository folder. After this run the command:

waf install

It will deploy the software into the PREFIX or INTROOT directory:

The logger configuration will be described in section 3.5 of this document. The rest of the configuration items will be described in the subsections of the corresponding software components.

In the private.lua file a number of environment variables will be set. These can be modified by the user:

Table 4 Environment variables defined by the DDT

Environment variable	Description
DDT_LOGCONFIG_PATH	Path to the logger configuration files.
DDT_TRANSFERCONFIG_PATH	Path to the configuration of the DDT Data Transfer.
DDT_COLORMAP_PATH	Path to the rgb colourmaps used by the DDT Datavisualisation.
DDT_CONFIGURATIONMAP_PATH	Path to configuration maps used by the DDT Datavisualisation.
DDT_TEST_DATA_DIR	Path to test data used by the testing.