NAME

       pwizlite - Custom reduced Proteowizard library

SYNOPSIS

       pwizlite is a shared object library (*.so file)

DESCRIPTION

       The  pwizlite  shared  object library is a reduced copy of the Proteowizard libpwiz library. The pwizlite
       library only contains code that allows the user to load XML-based  standard  mass  spectrometry  formats:
       mzXML and mzML and MGF files.

       Rationale:  The  Proteowizard  project uses the Boost BJam build system to build their library and binary
       images. The source tree contains all the libraries that libpwiz depends upon. The configuration  of  BJam
       is  so complicated that making the build system use the system-based libraries is terribly difficult. The
       Proteowizard project used to maintain an autotools build system port for GNU/Linux users.  But  that  has
       been discontinued.

       Many  projects (and mine also) have resorted to using a reduced set of libpwiz source files only directed
       at building the XML-based and MGF format file-loading capabilities. In my packaging experience, at  least
       one  package  makes  use  of such a subset copy of libpwiz. Having a package like pwizlite in Debian will
       ease packaging of all the other packages.

EXAMPLES

       • To include files from the pwizlite library, write an inclusion statement of this sort:

         #include <pwizlite/pwiz/<path>/<to>/<file.h>

       • To link to the pwizlite library add a linker flag: -lpwizlite.

       • To CMake-find the package: find_package(PwizLite)

       • To CMake-configure the package: find_package(PwizLiteConfig.cmake)

       • To use the pkgconfig system: pkg-config --help pkg-config --libs pwizlite

MAN PAGE PRODUCTION

       This man page was written by Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>.

AUTHOR

       Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Filippo Rusconi

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