Installation

Prodigal consists of only a single C binary which contains everything you need. Prodigal runs from the command-line (i.e. terminal window in Linux or MacOSX, and at the DOS command line in Windows). Binaries are provided with each release; however, you can also install the program other ways as described below.

• Installing on MacOSX via homebrew
• Installing from source using make
• Compiling on Windows

Installing on MacOSX via homebrew

There is a brew available for Prodigal. Make sure you have the latest version of homebrew.

$ brew update

Then install the prodigal formula.

$ brew install prodigal

Installing from source using make

After you have uncompressed the source code, cd into the directory and do:

$ make install 

This will install the prodigal binary in /usr/local/bin. If you wish to put it somewhere else, you can override the INSTALLDIR variable in the makefile.

$ make install INSTALLDIR=/where/i/want/prodigal/

Compiling on Windows

To compile on Windows, you should use either Cygwin or MinGW. Once you have a terminal window with the basic commands like make, install, and gcc, follow the directions in Installing from source using make