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authorDimitri Sokolyuk <demon@dim13.org>2009-05-11 00:27:49 +0000
committerDimitri Sokolyuk <demon@dim13.org>2009-05-11 00:27:49 +0000
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+General
+-------
+XFOIL and its plot library should compile on any Unix system
+with normal Fortran-77, C, and X-Windows support. So far,
+XFOIL has been tested on the following systems:
+
+ DEC-5000
+ Alpha
+ SGI
+* Sun
+* RS/6000
+* HP-9000
+* Pentium/Linux
+
+
+The systems marked with "*" have peculiar features which require slight
+modifications to the Makefiles in the plotlib/ and bin/ directories.
+Examine these Makefiles before building the plot library and XFOIL.
+
+
+Build sequence
+--------------
+
+1) Build Orr-Sommerfeld database in ./orrs
+
+ % cd orrs
+
+Follow directions in orrs/README
+
+
+2) Build the plot library in ./plotlib ...
+
+ % cd plotlib
+ % edit Makefile (set compiler flags for your machine)
+ % make libPlt.a
+
+
+3) Build the programs in ./bin ...
+
+ % cd bin
+ % edit Makefile (set compiler flags for your machine)
+ % make xfoil
+ % make pplot
+ % make pxplot
+
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+User Guide is in the xfoil.doc file. If impatient, you can just
+run XFOIL in the runs/ directory, which contains a few input files:
+
+ % cd runs
+ % ../bin/xfoil
+
+The file session.txt contains keyboard inputs for a typical interactive
+session. If one is lost when running XFOIL, typing a "?" at any command
+prompt, e.g.
+
+ .GDES c> ?
+
+will always produce a keyboard command menu.
+