[ADMB Users] compiling a TPL file in a different directory?

[Ian Taylor - NOAA Federal]

I think a getting started guide would be great.

I think the vast majority of ADMB users got their start with an existing
user helping them along. But that approach obviously limits the rate at
which the user base can expand.
-Ian


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13-02-06 11:36 AM, John Sibert wrote:
> > Hi Ben and list,
> > Thanks for pointing out missing bits of documentation. You're right
> > about waiting for code to write itself. Please feel free to contribute a
> > few pages to the manual.
> >
> > Meanwhile, I'll look into building the manuals. (By the way, preliminary
> > manual development was done under Ubuntu 10.04.)
> > John
>
>   In case I do get around to this: can somebody point me to "getting
> started" information that already exists that I would be allowed to
> parasitize?  (Dave's fix improves the specific points, but I still think
> there's room for a short section that points out how you actually run
> models once you have successfully installed ADMB following the
> platform-specific instructions.)
>
>   Ben
>
> > John Sibert
> > Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
> > University of Hawaii at Manoa
> > Honolulu HI (GMT-10)
> > 808-294-3842
> >
> > Visit the ADMB project http://admb-project.org/
> >
> > On 02/06/2013 06:03 AM, Ben Bolker wrote:
> >> On 13-02-06 10:46 AM, dave fournier wrote:
> >>> I don't think the code to do that has written itself yet.
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>    OK, then, I was going to suggest a fix to the documentation (faster
> >> and easier than waiting for the code to write itself ...) ... but then I
> >> couldn't actually find the documentation for the basics of getting
> >> started *running* ADMB.
> >>
> >>    I can find documentation for installing ADMB at
> >> http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/installation
> >>
> >>    I can find user manuals at
> >> http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/manuals/admb-user-manuals ,
> >> but after going through the ADMB user manual (relatively quickly, I
> >> admit) I can't find anywhere it actually tells me how to *run* an ADMB
> >> model -- it's all about writing the TPL file.  The closest thing I can
> >> find is chapter 12, which is a list of command-line options.  I can't
> >> find a "getting started" section anywhere ...
> >>
> >>    By the way, I tried to compile the manual myself from the SVN: for
> >> future reference, I had to
> >>
> >> * 'make' in docs/manuals/admbmanual to create admbmanual.cls; copy it to
> >> docs/manuals/admb
> >> * copy ADMB-logo.png from the manuals/share directory (there may be a
> >> better way to do this)
> >>
> >>    Then it works, although it's using fonts that are a tiny bit ugly
> when
> >> compiled on my (Ubuntu 10.04) system.
> >>
> >>     Should I write a couple of "getting started" pages for the manual?
> >> Or is there "getting started" material elsewhere that I've overlooked?
> >>
> >>    Ben Bolker
> >>
> >>
> >>
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