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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain Ecg2png

You can get the latest version at http://www.cardiothink.com/downloads. Only source files are available. A PGP signature file signed by "widman@cardiothink.com" is also available. The public key for this signer is available at www.keyserver.net.

2.2 Requirements

Operating Systems

I have tested the program only under Linux of the Redhat 6.0 flavor. It should work with any operating system under which Qt can be compiled. It is designed to be run from the command line (to facilitate batch processing), and therefore does not use calls to the windowing system.

Qt

You must have Qt installed on your system. Preferably, you will have version 2.0 or later because it includes the capability for reading and writing the PNG image format. If you are running version 1.44, you must also have the Professional Edition because the PNG code was not distributed as open-source prior to version 2.0. See the section below on Compilation and Installation for further details on changing the Makefile to include the extension library in the Professional Edition. If you have the Professional Edition of version 2.0, you may want to compile this program with the extension library to be able to read JPEG files.

Other packages required

2.3 Compilation and installation

If you have:

In order to compile and install Ecg2png on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Ecg2png distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

Since Ecg2png uses

autoconf
you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at Lawrence E. Widman or to Bob Jones, who can help if the author is not available.

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