The current versions of the GMOS Mask Making software are v0.302, released in September 2007 for Linux and Mac OS X and v0.22 for Solaris. There is little difference in functionality between v0.302 and v0.22 but v0.302 is built to work on recent Linux and Mac distributions and it includes vizualization of tilted slits. Please use the current version for your OS for your mask designs. The current version of the GMOS mask making software provides support for Nod & Shuffle masks.

How to get the software

The GMOS Mask Making software is supplied as a gzipped tar file, and is available in compiled form for the following operating systems.

Version 0.302 (download)

RedHat 9.0 (and compatible)
Fedora Core 3,4,6 (and compatible)
Mac OS X

Version 0.22 (download)

Sun Solaris
RedHat 9.0

Support for Linux and Mac OS X operating systems is included in the same tarfile: gmmps-V-0.302-REL.tar.gz. For Sun OS, or RedHat 6.x or 7.x, please use version 0.22, available here, gmmps-V-0-22-REL.tar.gz, Depending on your browser, right or shift+click to save the file. The gzipped tar-file is about 15Mb. The unpacked software requires 50Mb of disk space. Some space can be saved by deleting the bin.PLATFORM and lib.PLATFORM directories which do not support your platform.

To use the GMOS Mask Making software, you will also need Skycat installed. Skycat versions 2.6.6 and later will work with the GMMPS 0.22, but the latest versions of GMMPS (0.302 and on) require Skycat 3.0 or higher. In addition, you will need the latest version of the Gemini IRAF package installed.

How to install the software

The installation instructions are included with the released software in the file INSTALL.TXT. If you are using the software under Sun/Solaris, Linux/Redhat, or Mac OS X the installation involves only unpacking the distribution file and setting your path and environment variables as described in INSTALL.TXT. Under other operating systems you will have to compile the source code. This requires that you use GNU make.

Note for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) users:  The location of one of the libraries used by gmmps has changed in OS X 10.5 and this will produce the error message "Error: dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib..." when gmmps is run after a standard install. The simplest solution is to add /usr/lib to the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable in the gmmps the startup script, i.e.

DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GMMPS/lib:/Applications/Skycat.app/Contents/Resources/lib:/usr/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

Linux Compatibility Table

Note, to use the compatibility chart... you can give the "GMMPS Platform To Use" name to the "setplatform" scripts, e.g. for Debian 2.6.8 "setplatform Fedora3".

Reported compatibility of Linux distributions with the GMMPS standard platforms:

Acknowledgements

The GMOS Mask Making Software is built on the ESO/VIMOS Mask Preparation Software, after agreement with European Southern Observatory. The software was modified for GMOS use by Jennifer Dunn, NRC, Canada, and Craig Allen, Gemini.

Last update July 8, 2008; Bryan Miller