Introduction

Guile-numerics provides Guile bindings for the GNU Scientific Library (GSL), libsndfile, FFTW and LAPACK. Most bindings are automatically generated from the include files of the libraries. This ensures the bindings are up-to-date. The bindings includes support for the following:

• complex numbers in GSL context
• vector and matrix functions
• GSL BLAS
• linear algebra
• random number generators
• statistics
• fast fourier transforms
• random distributions
• special functions
• monte carlo integration
• quasi random sequences
• permutations, combinations and sorting
• function integration
• function differentiation
• function minimization
• polynomial root finding
• chebyshev approximations
• function fitting
• reading and writing sound files
• fast fourier transforms through FFTW
• dgesv, zgesv, dgels, zgels functions from LAPACK

The test scripts for GSL have been taken from the examples in the GSL reference manual. They both show that the bindings work and serve as examples of how to properly call the functions within Guile.

Dependencies

• Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. Guile-numerics requires version 1.6 but may also work with version 1.4.
• The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library written in ANSI C. Guile-numerics has been used with version 1.2 and higher.
• Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound. Guile-numerics provides support for version 1.0 and higher.
• FFTW is a C library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex data, and of arbitrary input size. Guile-numerics provides binding to version 3.0 and later.
• SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. Guile-numerics requires at least version 1.3.14.
• If you want to use the version from CVS, you also need automake version 1.6 or higher and autoconf version 2.50 or higher.

Project links

• Project page
• Download area