Installation
System requirements
Visual Programming Armoury runs on Windows 95/98/NT on Intel hardware. A 486/DX or faster processor and at least 16MB of RAM are recommended. You should have 8MB of free disk space plus 4MB additional temporary disk space available during setup process before attempting to install the software.
To build C++ projects any compiler is suitable. You may customize makefile and rules of parsing errors and warnings according to the examples supplied. Persistence Smith framework is shipped with class libraries in Microsoft Visual C++ format. To build and run Java projects any Java platform must be installed. In spite of absence of C++ and Java compilers you may analyse demo projects, create new ones, explore class libraries shipped with VPA, execute modeling, write source code and document it.
Environment variables
After installation set up PATH, INCLUDE, LIB and CLASSPATH environment variables as shown below and restart the system. INCLUDE and LIB are necessary for C++ and Persistence Smith. CLASSPATH is necessary for Java framework.
For Windows 95/98 alter autoexec.bat:
- SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\tcvpa\bin
- SET INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;c:\tcvpa\include
- SET LIB=%LIB%;c:\tcvpa\lib
- SET CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;c:\tcvpa\lib\tcUtils.zip
For Windows NT alter "Control Panel / System / Environment / User Variables":
- add c:\tcvpa\bin to PATH
- add c:\tcvpa\include to INCLUDE
- add c:\tcvpa\lib to LIB
- add c:\tcvpa\lib\tcUtils.zip to CLASSPATH