Setting up your development environment

Added by Jon Tirsen, last edited by Jon Tirsen on Aug 25, 2004  (view change)

On Unix

  1. Install Ruby 1.8.1 (or preferably a preview to 1.8.2 as there is a bug in Yaml that causes segmentation fault on 1.8.1, for more info see [here]).

On Windows

  1. Install Cygwin, the following packages needs to be installed: ruby, cvs and crypt. To be sure install most packages from the Devel category.
  2. To build an installer you need to install NSIS: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

Building

The build scripts are located in the build.rb file. There are a number of targets you can use:

  • ./build.rb test will run the unit tests and the complete integration tests..
  • ./build.rb dist will build a distribution into target/dist.
  • ./build.rb dist -Ddist_dir=<dist directory> will build a distribution into the specified dist directory.
  • ./build.rb installer -Druby_home=<path to ruby installation> -Dcvs_executable=<path to cvs installation> will build an installer. The paths to the ruby installation and the cvs executable needs to be absolute windows paths with backslashes doubled.

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