XSTAR as a Standalone Package

The standalone version of xstar is available as a gzipped and tarred file on the xstar website

 
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/xstar/xstar.html
The source code is available along with compiled executables for several machine architectures.

The installation is the same as for the full heasoft:

 
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/install.html

In more detail, you follow these instructions, but obviously the tarfile is named xstar22src.tar.gz rather than what is given in the heasoft instructions, and the directory that appears when it is untarred is called heasoft, not heasoft-6.9. A condensed version of what you need to do is as follows:

 

2) In the directory in which you want to install the software,
   unpack the file you downloaded in step 1 using e.g.:

      gunzip -c xstar22src.tar.gz | tar xf -

   This will create a heasoft/ directory containing the software
   distribution.

3) Configure the software for your platform (necessary for both binary and
   source downloads):

      cd heasoft/BUILD_DIR/

   and run the main configure script, which will probe your system
   for libraries, header files, compilers, etc., and then generate
   the main Makefile.

   To produce a default configuration, the configure script may simply
   be invoked by (we recommend capturing the screen output from configure
   as below):

      ./configure >& config.out &     (C Shell variants)
      ./configure > config.out 2>&1 & (Bourne Shell variants)

4) Start the build process. We strongly recommend that you capture all
   output into a log file. Then, if you need to report a problem,
   please send us the ENTIRE log file. And since it may take some time
   to run (from minutes to hours, depending on the speed of your system)
   we recommend that you build it in the background:

      make >& build.log &     (C Shell variants)
      make > build.log 2>&1 & (Bourne Shell variants)

   To check on the build progress in real-time (if you wish) try:

      tail -f build.log

6) Perform the final installation of the executables, libraries,
   help files, calibration data, perl scripts, etc, by executing:

      make install >& install.log &     (C Shell variants)
      make install > install.log 2>&1 & (Bourne Shell variants)

   This will create an appropriately-named system-dependent directory,
   e.g. sparc-sun-solaris2.9/, either under heasoft/ or, if you
   specified a prefix argument to configure, in
   the directory you selected at that time.