Framewave Build System

Setting up a build

HOWTO

Prerequisite Documents

Framewave Build System - Architecture.doc

Introduction

To set up a build on a clean system, the following steps need to be followed.

• Download Framewave from SourceForge.net
• Install and setup the compiler
• Install and setup Python
• Install and setup SCons

Description

Download Framewave:

Create a new directory for Framewave. Use SVN to get the Framewave source from the SourceForge server into this directory using the following command:

svn checkout https://framewave.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/framewave/trunk FW_SourceForge

For this documentation, the source code will be the “FW_SourceForge” directory. This directory can exist anywhere on the system.

Compiler setup:

Whichever operating system you are running or whichever compiler you are using, you need to make sure that the compiler is set up correctly before the Framewave build system can use it. To ensure that the build works correctly, follow these steps;

• Make sure that the compiler is installed correctly and completely with all it’s requisite libraries and build tools
• Make sure that the compiler is accessible via the command line from whichever console you are using
• Verify that you can compile and link on the system. You can verify this by compiling and linking a test CPP file.
• Check the version of the compiler from the console

Python setup:

Download and install ActivePython 2.5.1. Again, make sure that this is available to you from the command line and check the version of python from the console you intend on building from

SCons setup:

Download and install SCons 0.97. Again, make sure that this is available to you from the command line and check the version of SCons from the console

Once these steps are complete, you are ready to build.

Navigate to the FW_SourceForge/Framewave directory. Verify that the SConstruct file exists here the build the solution with the command:

scons

Note: please refer to BuildSystem: Architecture for more information