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PROJ.4¶

PROJ.4 consists of programs and a library for managing cartographic projections.

Usage¶

By running

$ module load libs/gcc/6.2/proj/4.9.3

you

add several PROJ.4 programs to your PATH environment variable
allow other programs to make use of (dynamically link against) the PROJ.4 library

You can run proj to test that you are running the required version

$ proj
Rel. 4.9.3, 15 August 2016
usage: proj [ -bCeEfiIlormsStTvVwW [args] ] [ +opts[=arg] ] [ files ]

Standard man pages are available for the provided commands/functions cs2cs, geod, proj, geodesic and pj_init.

These can be viewed using e.g.

$ man proj

This section is primarily for administrators of the system.

PROJ.4 4.9.3 was compiled with v6.2.0 of the GCC compiler suite.

cd to a scratch directory.
Download, build and install PROJ.4 using :download`this script (install.sh) </iceberg/software/install_scripts/libs/gcc/6.2/proj/4.9.3/install.sh>`. Files are installed into /usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/6.2/proj/4.9.3/
Install this modulefile as /usr/local/modulefiles/libs/gcc/6.2/proj/4.9.3