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Revision: 1.3
Committed: Thu Oct 22 21:24:21 2009 UTC (14 years, 5 months ago) by schorsch
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rad4R2P2, rad5R0, rad4R2, rad4R1, rad4R0, rad4R2P1
Changes since 1.2: +3 -2 lines
Log Message:
SCons now checks for installed auxiliary support files.

File Contents

# Content
1 Building and Installing Radiance with SCons
2 -------------------------------------------
3
4 This file describes how to build and install Radiance using the SCons
5 based build system (an alternative to the traditional makeall script
6 explained in the README file).
7
8
9 Requirements
10 ------------
11
12 Please make sure that you have dowloaded and unpacked BOTH the Radiance
13 source package AND the archive with the auxiliary support files.
14 Crucial parts of the system will be missing if you only have one of
15 them, and SCons will be unable to build the software.
16
17 SCons is a platform-independent software configuration and build system
18 written in Python. If SCons and Python are not already installed on your
19 system, then you need to download and install them first.
20
21 Python: http://www.python.org/
22 SCons: http://www.scons.org/
23
24 For many systems, precompiled packages are available, such as Installer
25 files for Windows. Most Linux distributions already come with Python
26 installed and ready to use.
27
28 SCons *may* use a libtiff already installed on your system. However, if
29 it doesn't find one, it will build its own from sources included with
30 Radiance.
31
32
33 Building
34 --------
35
36 For building Radiance, go to the "ray" directory (where this file
37 resides) in a console window and type:
38
39 $> scons build
40
41 or just
42
43 $> scons
44
45 The Scons program will find the necessary information, display a
46 copyright message for you to acknowledge, and proceed to build the
47 software.
48
49
50 Configuring
51 -----------
52
53 In the subdirectory "ray/platform/" there are a number of configuration
54 files for various build environments. In this context, a "platform" is a
55 specific combination of operating system and build tools (eg. compiler).
56 On unix based systems, the compiler usually doesn't make much of a
57 difference, but on Windows, there are seperate build environments for
58 toolkits like Cygwin or MingW.
59
60 The file "ray/platform/README" explains the settings that can be
61 configured in those files, and how to create a new one, if you use a
62 platform that isn't supported yet.
63
64
65 Options
66 -------
67
68 You can add the following command line options when invoking Scons.
69 The directories given here will override those specified in the
70 configuration file.
71
72 RAD_BINDIR=<directory>
73 Install executables here
74 (Default read from config file)
75
76 RAD_MANDIR=<directory>
77 Install man pages here
78 (Default read from config file)
79
80 RAD_RLIBDIR=<directory>
81 Install support files here
82 (Default read from config file)
83
84 RAD_DEBUG=1|0
85 1: Build a debug version
86 0: Build a production version (default)
87
88 SKIP=1|0
89 1: Skip display of License terms
90 0: Don't skip (default)
91
92 SCons will remember the values given with those options. You don't need
93 to supply them again each time when you run repeated builds and
94 installs, but only when something changes.
95
96 Invoking SCons with the -H flag will display informtion about many other
97 options, but you won't normally need any of those.
98
99
100 Testing
101 -------
102
103 Radiance comes with a (still very incomplete) test suite, which can be
104 run by invoking
105
106 $> scons test
107
108 This executes a series of tests, each indicating success or failure.
109 Testing will use the Radiance binaries in the "ray/bin/" directory, and the
110 support files in "ray/lib/", where they are located after building but
111 before installing. However, it will not trigger a (re-)build if any of
112 those files are out of date or missing (instead, it will complain about
113 failed tests because of missing executables etc.). You need to manually
114 invoke building and testing after each other to ensure that everything
115 is where it should be.
116
117 Users (that means you!) are invited to contribute more test cases.
118 The goal is that eventually (almost) all Radiance functionality can be
119 tested for compliance with the specification and/or expected results.
120
121 See the file "ray/test/README.txt" for details about the testing framework
122 and instructions on how to contribute test cases.
123
124
125 Installation
126 ------------
127
128 The software will be installed into the directories given either in the
129 configuration file or through command options, by invoking
130
131 $> scons install
132
133 To do this you need write permission in the target directories.
134 Any files that are not present or not up to date will be (re-)built
135 before being installed.
136
137 You can install parts of the software by specifying one of three special
138 targets:
139
140 $> scons bininstall # only executable files
141 $> scons rlibinstall # only support files
142 $> scons maninstall # only manual pages
143
144
145 Cleanup
146 -------
147
148 To save disk space on your system, or in preparation of a fresh build
149 with different settings, you can clean up the source tree by invoking
150
151 $> scons -c
152
153 This will delete all the generated object files, libraries, and
154 executables in and below the "ray/src/" subdirectory.
155
156