Check out projects

Checking out a project

Before checking out a project, be sure that your development environment is set up for $G.

$G uses CVS for source control and you can read more about it on its official site or on Wikipedia.

You can work anywhere except under the $G directory. At Brown ample disk space has been allocated here for students:

   /map/gfx0/users/$USER

So, for example, if your user id is "goo" and you wanted to check out the "wrist" project, you should type:

   > mkdir  /map/gfx0/users/goo
   > cd     /map/gfx0/users/goo
   > cvs  co  project/wrist        # Creates:  /map/gfx0/users/goo/project/wrist/...

Please do not waste space and retain only the files you need. When you are done with your account please be sure to delete it.

Type "make all" to build a project. Continuing the wrist project example from above, you would type:

   > cd  /map/gfx0/users/foo/project/wrist
   > make  all

By convention simple projects that build a single program or library can be built just by typing "make".