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.

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.

Building a Project on Linux

Before a project can be built any dependent packages need to be in the import/ directory. The wrist project depends on Blitz.

> cp -R /map/gfx0/tools/linux/import/blitz/  /map/gfx0/users/$USER/import/blitz/

The wrist project is a large project composed of several programs and libraries. It follows the convention of using a Makefile in the top level directory to build the entire project. Each project developer decides how their projects are organized and how they are built. You'll need to look at documentation for a project to determine how to build it.

Continuing the wrist project example from above, you would type:

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

Building a Project on Linux

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

   > cd/d  Y:\map\gfx0\users\goo\project\wrist
   > make  all

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