Compiling the Supplementary Tools

This document assumes that you have successfully compiled the Psys libraries. This document also assumes that you have uncompressed and untarred the Util file that holds the supplementary tools, and installed it in the chipmunk directory.

The 1995 release is the first release of the supplementary toolkit. Many of the tools were contributed by the Chipmunk tool users, who may have only used them on a few platforms. As a result, compiling and running these tools may not be as smooth as the other Chipmunk tools.

Begin by descending to the util directory.Then cd to each subdirectory, and edit the file Makefile, and make any necessary changes. Comments in the Makefile will guide you through these changes; the changes are labeled with the markers (1), (2), (3), etc. Once these changes are made in each directory, return to util and execute the command

make install

If things are working correctly, a long series of compilations, linkings, and file movements should occur without error. This will create the programs and shell scripts in the directory chipmunk/bin/.

To learn more about the Supplementary tools, see the user documentation.

If you have problems compiling or using these tools, I'd be happy to offer suggestions; press here for more information about asking for help. For many types of problems, I'll probably refer you to the contributing author for the tool.

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