Installation

To install the toolbox follow these steps:

1.

Download the file wavekit.zip

2.

Decide on where you want to place the files. Unpack the zip-file with the command unzip wavekit or pkunzip -d wavekit

This generates the directory wavekit and some subdirectories of it.

3.

Start Matlab and cd to the directory wavekit and then to fwt.

4.

Type the command makemex. (Skip this step in Windows 95.) This compiles the C-subroutines and produces the necessary mex-files.²

5.

cd back to the wavekit directory (cd ..) and give the command startup (see the next section). Optionally, you may now also give the command test. This runs several programs included in this package and should notice if there are any problems. If test produces no output, everything should be fine.

Any problems in step 4 are likely caused by the fact that the mex-compiler was not properly set up when Matlab was installed on your system. To fix this, please refer to the Matlab documentation or complain loudly to your system administrators. (See also² for a remedy on some systems.) If the problem seems to be related to the toolbox, I will be glad to hear about it. (Send me a Matlab diary-file that shows all error messages and also the output of the matlab version command.)

I have installed WAVEKIT succesfully on Solaris, AIX, and Digital Unix, but these are all Unix systems. I would like to hear from Mac and PC users and others even if there were no problems, since I don't have access to Matlab on other machines.

Footnotes

... mex-files.²

makemex simply compiles the files fwt1step.c, fwt2step.c, ifwt1stp.c, and ifwt2stp.c (in the directory wavekit/fwt) using the Matlab mex compiler. Precompiled files are provided for Windows 95, Sun Solaris, IBM Aix (rs6000), and Dec Alpha running Digital Unix. If you are using one of these systems, you may skip running makemex. However, since these are binary programs, it is recommended to compile your own versions, if possible.