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PROJ

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

Usage

After connecting to Stanage (see Establishing a SSH connection), start an interactive session with the following command:

srun --pty bash -i

Running one of the following:

module load PROJ/9.1.1-GCCcore-12.2.0
module load PROJ/9.0.0-GCCcore-11.3.0
module load PROJ/8.1.0-GCCcore-11.2.0
module load PROJ/7.2.1-GCCcore-10.2.0

will

add several PROJ programs to your PATH environment variable
allow other programs to make use of (dynamically link against) the PROJ library
activate a version of the GCC compiler (as its C++ standard library is required when using PROJ.X)

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

$ proj
Rel. 9.1.1, December 1st, 2022
usage: proj [-bdeEfiIlmorsStTvVwW [args]] [+opt[=arg] ...] [file ...]

Documentation

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

Installation notes

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

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