SpherePackingScenarioGenerator: How to build the generator

Prerequisites

I assume you have Qt, version 4 (http://qt.nokia.com) and vtk (http://www.vtk.org) with qt-support installed.

In Ubuntu 10, that requires the following packages:

VTK:

libvtk5.2
libvtk5-dev
libvtk4-qt4
libvtk5-qt4-dev

QT:

libqt4-core
libqt4-gui
libqt4-dev
qt4-qmake

Building the generator from the command line

Check out the Generator project via svn from svn+ssh://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/atsccs40/home_local/repositories/svn/ScenarioGenerator/trunk

Check out the Peano project via svn from svn+ssh://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/atsccs40/home_local/repositories/svn/peano/trunk

CD into the project directory

set environment variables according to your system (vim ~/.bashrc):

Set the environment variables VTKINCLUDEPATH and VTKLIBPATH to point to the vtk headers and vtk librarie. In our case it looks like : export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vtk-5.2:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export VTKLIBPATH=/usr/lib/vtk-5.2 export VTKINCLUDEPATH=/usr/include/vtk-5.2

Set the environment variables SCENGENSRC and SCENGENGUISRC to point to the folder of src and ScenGen/src/. In our case it looks like : export SCENGENSRC=/home_local/tanlin/workspaces/ScenarioGenerator/src/ export SCENGENGUISRC=/home_local/tanlin/workspaces/ScenarioGenerator/ScenGen/src/

Set the environment variables TARCH_SRC In our case it looks like : export TARCH_SRC=/home_local/tanlin/workspaces/peano-src-trunk/src/

Make environment variables immediately works (source ~/.bashrc)

generate the library tarch

Go to the root folder of Generator project and run scons target=sc-basic build=debug.

Move the libtarch.a from build/debug/sc-basic/g++/ to the folder of src (which decide by the command above)

Make bash scripts of buildGuiStuff.sh and cleanupGuiStuff.sh executable (chmod u+x *.sh).

Build the executable (ScenGen) by typing ./buildGuiStuff.sh

Building the generator with Eclipse CDT

Basically perform the steps from Building the generator from the command line. When checking out the project in eclipse with the svn-plugin subclipse, choose as project type a "Makefile Project". Then generate the the Makefile as described below.

generate a Gnu Makefile by typing qmake -o Makefile.generator.

Specify in the "Project Properties" / "C/C++-Build" / "Builder Properties" the Makefile generated (in the build command:

make -f Makefile.generator -j3 )

To ease the regeneration of the Makefile, you can optionally install the qt eclipse integration plugin from http://qt.nokia.com/developer/eclipse-integration

QMake Links

Building the DummyGenerator

Along with the Scenario Generator comes a DummyGenerator, to demonstrate the concepts. To build it, type

qmake -o Makefile.dummy
make -f Makefile.dummy

Alternatively, specify a new build configuration in Eclipse.

Running the ScenarioGenerator with the DummyGenerator

Make sure, that the libraries of the DummyGenerator are located in the directory ./libs. Then just execute the ScenarioGenerator in the folder of ScenGen:

./ScenGen