4.3.5. NAPI IDL Interface

IDL is an interactive data evaluation environment developed by Research Systems - it is an interpreted language for data manipulation and visualization. The NeXus IDL bindings allow access to the NeXus API from within IDL - they are installed when NeXus is compiled from source after being configured with the following options:

configure \
        --with-idlroot=/path/to/idl/installation \
        --with-idldlm=/path/to/install/dlm/files/to

For further details see the README (https://htmlpreview.github.com/?https://github.com/nexusformat/code/blob/master/bindings/idl/README.html) for the NeXus IDL binding. The source code is stored at https://github.com/nexusformat/code/tree/master/bindings/idl