Multiple Overlap of Genomic Regions

by András Aszódi

Version 1.5

This program is licensed under the terms of the BSD Open Source license. See the file LICENSE for details.

Pre-compiled binaries are provided for some popular architectures. If you want to build Multovl from scratch, keep on reading:

Building instructions

See doc/html/guide.html for installation instructions and a detailed documentation.

Prerequisites

You will need cmake Version 3.20.5 or above, a C++17-compliant compiler, and the Boost libraries (1.74 or above) to build Multovl.

For the very impatient

Run the quickbuild.sh script in the top-level Multovl directory. This will compile the package using static linkage, assuming a Linux platform, Boost libraries installed in the usual system location. You have to specify the installation prefix by providing a path as a command line argument. E.g. quickbuild.sh $HOME/foo/bar will install the Multovl executables into $HOME/foo/bar/multovl-1.5/bin.

For the moderately impatient

By default all these external libraries will be linked statically. To link all of them dynamically instead, specify the CMake option -DMULTOVL_USE_DYNAMIC_LIBS:BOOL=ON

The basic steps if you use the default system compilers:

mkdir build 
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBOOST_ROOT=/path/to/boost \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/installdir ..
make

Or you can spell out what make all does:

make apps
make doc    # this generates Doxygen documentation if you have Doxygen installed

And then finally:

make install (this you may need to run as root, depending on installdir permissions)

The tools should now be installed in ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/multovl-1.5/bin.

Additional Cmake settings are listed in the top-level CMakeLists.txt, or you may run cmake -i for interactive options, or ccmake.