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cfitsio

CFITSIO is a library of C and Fortran subroutines for reading and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format. CFITSIO provides simple high-level routines for reading and writing FITS files that insulate the programmer from the internal complexities of the FITS format.

Usage

To make this library available, run one of the following module commands

module load CFITSIO/3.45-GCCcore-7.3.0
module load CFITSIO/3.45-intel-2018b
module load CFITSIO/3.47-GCCcore-8.3.0
module load CFITSIO/3.48-GCCcore-9.3.0

The modulefile creates a variable $CPATH which is the path to the include directory.

Installation notes

This section is primarily for administrators of the system. CFITSIO has been installed using the default Easybuild config files.

Build logs and test reports can be found in $EBROOTCFITSIO/easybuild with a given module loaded.