go-libnecpp
A Go wrapper around libnecpp, which is a C library for nec++, which is a C++ rewrite of nec2c, which is itself a C rewrite/translation of the original FORTRAN code for NEC2, an antenna modelling package.
Installation
This package requires nec++ to be installed. On Linux, it's often found in the distribution packages. Otherwise, and on other Unix-y OSes, it should build per the instructions in the necpp library.
Installing nec++ on Mac OS X is likely to be more difficult, because clang gets unhappy about some of the Fortranisms still creeping around in the code. Even when that's cleared up by applying a couple of the pull requests on the github page, you still need to configure nec++ with the --without-lapack option. A procudure for installing necpp smoothly is in the works.
This package should be able to build on Windows, assuming you've been able to build nec++ with the instructions for Windows on the github page.
Documentation
See the godocs for more detailed documentation for go-libnecpp.
Also very relevant:
- nec++'s github page can be found at https://github.com/tmolteno/necpp/.
- The nec++ documentation at http://tmolteno.github.io/necpp/
- Neoklis Kyriazis' website at http://www.qsl.net/5b4az/, which includes the homepage for nec2c.
- The user's manual for NEC2 at http://www.nec2.org/part_3/toc.html. This manual may make some of the more obscure portions of the documentation taken from nec++ more clear.
LICENSE
This library is licensed under the GPL (since the original libnecpp library is). Details can be found in the LICENSE file in this repository.
AUTHOR
The golang libnecpp wrapper was written by Jeremy Bingham (jeremy@goiardi.gl).
Nec++ was written by Tim Molteno tim@physics.otago.ac.nz.
Nec2c (the C port which nec++ was based on) was done by by Neoklis Kyriazis.