Development Environment (J.Quick)

This has been defined in the Code Development Environment Document. The development area is currently set up on apus in the /home2/local/src/nccs directory. Note that this area is for development only, independent operating copies of all necessary software will be kept on each NCCS component computer to eliminate any dependence on external fileservers.

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SETUP CODE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT ON APUS

The development language and tools chosen are as defined in the Requirements & Specifications. They are :

1.

GNU ANSI C as the main programming language,

2.

IEEE Posix standard for operating calls,

3.

make for code management,

4.

RCS for revision control.

Other programming languages e.g. Fortran and/or Pascal, will only be permitted where code already exists in one of these languages and it is considered uneconomical to port the code in question to ANSI C. The following compilers will be used for the ``foreign'' languages :

• GNU's g77 or f2c for Fortran,
• GNU's p2c for converting Pascal to C.