Geo-ReadGRIB ============ Geo::ReadGRIB is an object Perl module that provides read access to data distributed in GRIB files. Specifically, I wrote it to access NOAA Wavewatch III marine weather model forecasts which are packaged as GRIB. wgrib.c Geo::ReadGRIB uses the C program wgrib to retrieve the GRIB file catalog and to extract the data. wgrib.c is included in the distribution and will compile when you make the module. The resulting executable is named wgrib.exe and should install in the same location as ReadGRIB.pm. ReadGRIB.pm will search for wgrib.exe at run time and die if it can't find it. wgrib.c is known to compile and install correctly with Geo::ReadGRIB on FreeBSD, LINUX and Windows. In all cases the compiler was gcc and on Windows ActivePerl and nmake were used and the CC=gcc option was used with Makefile.PL I've also been able to compile wgrib.c with gcc on Solaris Sparc and i386. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2006 by Frank Lyon Cox This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.