L.1 Introduction

While GMT can be ported to non-UNIX systems such as Windows, it is also true that one of the strengths of GMT lies its symbiotic relationship with UNIX. We therefore recommend that GMT be installed in a POSIX-compliant UNIX environment such as Linux or Mac OS X. If abandoning your non-UNIX operating system is not an option, consider one of these solutions:

WINDOWS:

Choose among these four possibilities:

1. Install GMT under Cygwin (A GNU port to Windows).

2. Install GMT under SFU (Windows Services for UNIX); a free download from Microsoft^L.1.

3. Install GMT under DJGPP (another GNU port to Windows/DOS).

4. Install GMT in Windows using Microsoft C/C++ or other compilers. Unlike the first three, this option will not provide you with any UNIX tools so you will be limited to what you can do with DOS batch files.

MAC OS9:

Here your choice is a commercial offering called MachTen^L.2.