Prerequisites

The toolkit is strongly dependent on the Inverse Square Law Exact Solutions (ISLES) library. Both 32 and 64 bit versions of this library are packaged within the neBEM<version>.tgz file. Recently, ISLES for a Mac running OSX 10.6.4 has been compiled (thanks to Achim). Correct version of the library should be present in the lib directory of the distribution, and named as libIsles.a. If necessary, please download this library from the neBEM web-page and copy it to the mentioned location.

The toolkit assumes that the Gnu Scientific Library (GSL) and the gnuplot are installed on the system. The present version also uses some routines from the book Numerical Recipes in C by William H Press, Brian P Flannery, Saul A Teukolsky and William T Vetterling, published by the Cambridge University Press. It should be noted here that the neBEM toolkit is not intrinsically dependent on any of these external packages / libraries / routines. It is quite likely that in a future version the toolkit will not use any of them except the ISLES library.