New Procedure for getting Chandler Releases

This method has been setup for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows NT/XP. When deploying on Windows, you will need to have the Cygwin environment setup, or at the minimum, the mincyg.zip package we have prepared at the release page. (In the cvs commands, you should have CVSROOT = :pserver:@cvs.osafoundation.org:/usr/local/cvsrep set in your environment.) Here are steps to follow:

• Startup a terminal in Linux or OS X
• cd to the directory where you want to install it
• Issue the following command to get the initial source from CVS.

• • cvs -d $CVSROOT co chandler
  • cd chandler
  • make install (or make DEBUG=1 install)

• WindowsXP users will have a slightly different experience. If you don't have cygwin installed then you can work with WinCVS to get the source module chandler and then install a minimal set of cygwin utilities as follows:
  • download http://builds.osafoundation.org/external/windows/mincyg.zip into the chandler directory (where you should normally be already)
  • unzip -d mincyg.zip (unzip -d preserves the structure of the archive, creating and filling a mincyg directory with the minimum cygwin requirements to run the gnu make based installer for the chandler pre-built binaries)

Run the installation script that came with the mincyg.zip archive to download and install the prebuilt Chandler binaries:

• • installWin install (or installWin DEBUG=1 install)

Then, start Chandler the first time (execute from within chandler):

• • ../release/RunChandler --stderr --create
  • (or ../debug/RunChandler --stderr --create)

-- MarkJaffe - 06 May 2004