A program to analyze an astronomical adaptive optics system. 1) Installation: This depends on "mxlib", my library of c++ code. I am constantly changing/updating/extending mxlib for other projects, so I recommend checking out the "aoSystem" branch like so: git clone https://github.com/jaredmales/mxlib.git -b aoSystem --single-branch ./ Run that command in the directory you want as the top-level directory of mxlib. Then follow the remaining installation instructions at: https://jaredmales.github.io/mxlib/group__installation.html Note: I have installed this on CentOS6 and 7, and Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.04. I have never tried it on a Mac -- let me know how it goes! 2) Build: Once you have setup the mxlib build system (which just means setting up environment variables to point to mx.makefile and mx.makefile.inc), you can build aoSystem with: make -B -f $MXMAKEFILEINC t=aoSystem 3) Run: Using the example config file, you can run the program with ./aoSystem -c example.conf See the documentation in example.conf. Command line options can be interrogated with ./aosystem -h