User:Sylvain

crontab on MacOS

• Example

crontab -e
00 20 * * * ctest -S myScript.cmake > myScript.log 2>&1

• Problem:

When I create a cronjob with

crontab -e

I get the error message:

crontab: temp file must be edited in place

• Solution:

Use the 'nobackup' option in VI:

:set nobackup
:set nowritebackup

crontab: installing new crontab

Install X11 on MacOS

To install ParaView-2.4.4, you need to install X11.

• Insert 'Mac OS X Install Disc 1'
• Scroll down to 'Optional Installs'
• Click 'Continue', 'Continue', 'Accept'
• Select 'Applications', click on the arrow in front of Applications
• Select 'X11'
• Click 'Upgrade', enter your password, click 'Ok'

Setup CMake for ICC

To configure a project to use the Intel compiler icc, set CC and CXX *before* you run cmake. Type is the terminal:

 CFLAGS= CXXFLAGS=
 CC=/opt/intel_cc_81/bin/icc
 CXX=/opt/intel_cc_81/bin/icpc

Then run cmake or ccmake.

Headers for Cross-platform Projects

 #include <stdio.h>  // for sscanf

Install Qt OpenSource for VCExpress (VS2005)

• Install VCExpress AND Platform SDK

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/download/

• Using Windows Unzip, extract qt-win-opensource-src-4.2.2.zip and acs-4.2.2-patch1.zip to c:/qt/qt-win-opensource-src-4.2.2

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Obtaining_GPL'ed_Qt_for_Windows

• Edit C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
• Add path to Platform SDK bin, include and lib:

 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Bin
 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include
 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Lib

• Launch Cygwin.exe, and apply the following patch

 patch -p1 -i qtwin_patch\msvc_bcc32_42.patch

• Launch Start > All Programs > Visual C++ Express Edition > Visual Studio Tools > Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt
• cd ..; cd qt; cd qt-win-opensource-src-4.2.2
• Configure Qt and answer yes to all questions

qconfigure.bat msvc2005

• Configure ParaView3 using CMake; Compile using MSVC2005

Install Qt OpenSource for Mac

• Build for Debug

cp -r qt-mac-opensource-4.2.2 ~/qt-4.2.2-debug
cd ~/qt-4.2.2-debug
./configure -debug -prefix /usr/local/qt-4.2.2-debug
yes
make
sudo make install

• Build for Release

cp -r qt-mac-opensource-4.2.2 ~/qt-4.2.2-release
cd ~/qt-4.2.2-release
./configure -prefix /usr/local/qt-4.2.2-release
yes
make
sudo make install

Change shell in Debian

• Type:

 chsh

• Type your password
• Logout and login again.
• Set up the .zshrc file.

Associate hostname with IP address for SSH

• Dynamic way:

Add in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

 send host-name "<your_host_name>";

• Static way: (not as good)

Add IP address and hostname in /etc/hosts (Linux) or C:/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts (Cygwin):

     102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
      38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

• On Debian, install openssh-server

SSH without password

Add to .ssh/config

 Host <remote_host_name>
   User <your_user_name_on_remote_host>

Debian Setup

Check http://wiki.debian.org/

boot: expert
Primary network interface: eth0: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100
DHCP
single partition
Install the kernel linux-image-2.6-686
Debian mirror: France - fr.debian.org
Use non-free software
Choose software to install:
Desktop environment
Web server
SQL server (forgot to do that one!)
Standard system

BuGLe setup on Debian

• Install NVIDIA drivers: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
• Install packages libgtkglext1-dev and nvidia-glx-dev

mkdir ~/.bugle
cp ~/bugle-0.0.20070217/doc/examples/filters ~/.bugle

Run bugle:

BUGLE_CHAIN=trace LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libbugle.so glxgears

Look at /tmp/bugle.log

Debugger from command line and debugger with GUI:

gldb glxgears
gldb-gui glxgears

VI setup

Install package vi-gtk Edit your ~/.vimrc

colorscheme torte

Create a plugin directory if it does not exist:

mkdir ~/.vim
mkdir ~/.vim/plugin

Download the a.vim into the plugin directory

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=31

Restart gvim.

VI Convert tabs to spaces (copied from http://www.gammon.com.au/smaug/vi.htm)

Type a VI command using ':set'

Set tabs to every 2 characters  	:set ts=2
Convert tabs to spaces in future 	:set et
Do not expand tabs 	                :set noet
Fix existing tabs (convert to spaces) 	:%retab
Show tabs visually, and end-of-lines 	:set list
Do not show tabs and end-of-lines 	:set nolist

Or add those commands to your ~/.vimrc

set textwidth=78  "wrap lines longer than this length
set tabstop=2     "tabs stops every 2 characters
set shiftwidth=2  "size of a tab
set expandtab     "tabs to spaces

Building CMake on Debian

Install curses

apt-get install curses5-dev

Debian package for dos2unix

apt-get install tofrodos

Build VTK for Release

To create an executable that contains all the libraries, so you don't need to ship the dlls with it: CMake options:

Build Static
Replace /MD with /MT

VC Express options:

Build Release

Mount on Linux using Samba

1. Create mount points .

mkdir /mnt/nas2 /mnt/ruwenda /mnt/nas3

2. add the following lines to your /etc/fstab file :

//kitwarenas2/Share /mnt/nas2    smbfs   defaults,guest,rw     0       0
//ruwenda/E         /mnt/ruwenda smbfs   defaults,guest,rw     0       0
//kitwarenas3:/Share /mnt/nas3 nfs     rw,user,exec,noauto         0       0

3. Mount each of them as

mount /mnt/nas2