summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/README.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'README.txt')
-rw-r--r--README.txt20
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 6d84ea0..69b3b3b 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Requirements: Visual Studio 2015 (full or community), boost (recent), CUDA 8.0,
Using the Visual Studio IDE:
Set the environment variable MATLAB_ROOT to your matlab install location.
-Copy boost headers to lib\include\boost, and boost libraries to bin\x64.
+Copy boost headers to lib\include\boost, and boost libraries to lib\x64.
Open astra_vc14.sln in Visual Studio.
Select the appropriate solution configuration (typically Release_CUDA|x64).
Build the solution.
@@ -151,6 +151,24 @@ For matlab: Run build_matlab.bat. The .dll and .mexw64 files will be in bin\x64\
For python 2.7/3.5: Run build_python27.bat or build_python35.bat. Astra will be directly installed into site-packages.
+Testing your installation:
+---------------------------
+
+To perform a (very) basic test of your ASTRA installation in Python, you can
+run the following Python commands. You can choose to skip the test of the GPU
+functionality for systems without a NVIDIA GPU.
+
+import astra
+astra.test_noCUDA() # To skip GPU tests
+astra.test_CUDA() # To also perform GPU tests
+
+
+To test your ASTRA installation in Matlab, the equivalent commands are:
+
+astra_test_noCUDA % To skip GPU tests
+astra_test_CUDA % To also perform GPU tests
+
+
References:
------------