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This distribution was created and tested under both Windows NT and Windows 2000 Professional operating systems. Since the interface is ostensibly the same (Win32) then there should be no major difficulty in porting to a Windows 98 or Windows 2000 User environment.

  1. The first step in installing a Sather implementation is to choose a suitable location for the distribution files. Once this has been done then the distribution should be unzipped (using, for example, the gzip utility from Gnu) into the chosen directory.
  2. The next thing is to set up the environment variables needed by the installation.

  3. Once these environment variables have been set up correctly and checked then the execution serch path should be set up to include the <SATHER_HOME>/Bin directory.
  4. It is normally wise at this stage to compile and run the Required Library test suite (the source for which is the Sather module test.module in the directory <SATHER_HOME>/Library/TestRequired. It would be wise to re-direct the standard output channel to a test log file for later use if needed. The standard error channel reports progress and indicates which test group (for which class) failed. Note that this test runs with full checking enabled and therefore carries out many millions of pre and post condition checks, a significant number of which involve the comparison of quite long (up to several hundred characters) strings.

 


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