This is an optional package.
Within this course we use MCS only to allow programs written in a variety of languages, in particular IDL and Fortran, to connect to the MySQL server, perform any sort of query, including the administrative ones, and eventually get the resulting data in a convenient form. See the demos under the Soft directory or the MCS manual.
Source code:
mcs-0.3.3-alpha7.tar.gz
If you are familiar with GitHub packages, then can download it with:
git clone https://github.com/gcalderone/MCS.git
User manual:
http://ross.oas.inaf.it/mcs/mcs.pdf
In brief, in addition to Perl, here are the system packages you would need for a simple installation making use just of the cfitsio library (for the Debian / Ubuntu case):
sudo apt install perl sudo apt install swig sudo apt install libpcre++-dev sudo apt install libcfitsio-dev
And if you want to have the python interface:
sudo apt install python-dev
To see all the configuration options:
./configure --help
Example configuration for IDL + cfitsio (assuming you have them installed on your machine):
tar zxvf mcs-0.3.3-alpha7.tar.gz cd mcs-0.3.3-alpha7 ./configure --enable-cfitsio --enable-idl make sudo make install
If you wanted to enable Python connectivity:
./configure --enable-cfitsio --enable-python
Note that you might need to specify where your python include files and library is by using python-config.
For example:
shell> which python-config /usr/bin/python-config ./configure --enable-cfitsio --enable-python --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config