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installation

Blue pill

Unpack the contents of the archive (matrix-RAD.zip) to wherever you want to put it, everything in the archive is in a matrix-RAD directory. Put the archive into this matrix-RAD directory. For a quick look at matrix-RAD running as an applet, load docs/index.html into a Java enabled browser. The rest of the installation is dependant on your OS, and since matrix-RAD runs on just about all OS's, only rough instructions can be given. Create a desktop icon or program launcher entry that points to either matrix-RAD (for unix like systems) or matrix-RAD.bat (for dos like systems). If neither of those scripts work on your OS, write something that does and send it back to us, they are just wrappers around the java.

Red pill

If you want to work on the source code, have a 1.4 JDK, 1.1.5 JDK, and Ant 1.5 installed. The reason for needing two different JDK's is that while we compile for 1.1.5, some parts of the development system rely on 1.4 features. In particular, MakeSkanglet uses a fancy DocLet to create the classes needed to compile any module. A 1.1.8 JDK can be used instead of 1.1.5.

Run the Ant install target to convert the files to something your OS can understand, and modify JDK11_HOME in build.xml as needed to point to your JDK 1.1. Note, there is a bug in Ant 1.5, you will have to run the ant install target twice if you want proper execute permissions on .bat files under unix. Windows doesn't need execute permission, and ant can't change them under Windows anyway. On the other hand, execute permission for Windows .bat files under unix only makes sense if you have a DOS or Windows emulator, so you probably never need to do the install twice. There is a bug in Sun's JDK 1.4.0 for Linux, it is only important if the JDK you use to run Ant is less than 1.3, see build.xml for details.

Due to space restrictions, the JavaDocs are no longer part of the package. Run the Ant javadoc target to generate them. Ignore the javadoc errors you get with MakeSkangletDoclet.java.

This file was last modified on Wednesday, 06-Oct-2004 16:23:35 EST