IceCube Software Development Workspace

• Make sure your JAVA_HOME environment variable is set correctly and it points to an existing Java SDK installation directory. Again, you should set this variable in your init scripts so that you do not have to worry about it again.

• Log into a new terminal session and make sure that the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables are correctly set.
  > echo $JAVA_HOME
> echo $PATH

• Create a workspace directory, where you will be working with the IceCube software. Although the location of the workspace is arbitrary, we recommend that you create:
  > mkdir ~/DAQ/BFD_workspace/
> cd ~/DAQ/BFD_workspace

• From inside your new workspace directory, initialize your new workspace directory with the existing IceCube tools directory:
  > bfd init /usr/local/icecube/tools

  After initializing your workspace, you should should get the following output:

  > bfd init ~/icecube/tools/

  Made tools directory
  Made resources directory
  Made resources/lib directory
    Lib files has been installed
  Made resources/makedepend directory
  Made resources/makedepend/include directory
    Include files has been installed
    Makedepend files has been installed
  Made resources/templates directory
    Templates files has been installed
    Resources files has been installed
    ant directory has been installed
  ...
  ...
  ...
    commons-logging.jar file has been installed
    Smc.jar file has been installed
    xalan.jar file has been installed
    xercesImpl.jar file has been installed
    xml-apis.jar file has been installed
  Initialized workspace, associated with the following tools directory.
          ~/icecube/tools/
     

  The above output can vary a bit depending on what tools you have installed, but this what should be expected at a minimum. Note that you can successfully 'init' the wrong directory and bfd will simply fail to install any tools. Be sure to look for something like the above output to verify that you have installed the tools correctly.

  The workspace directory should have the following files and directories:

  • tools/ -- contains links to all needed IceCube software tools.
  • setup.csh (and setup.sh) -- shell script that sets up the appropriate environment variables for building the code
  • build.xml -- contains information on which projects are to be compiled and how
  
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