From lechner@cs.uml.edu  Wed Mar  9 16:23:54 2005
From: Bob Lechner <lechner@cs.uml.edu>
Subject: running bde via Cygwin at home PC - Scott Frye FYInfo
To: RAlmonte@cs.uml.edu, MLauzier@cs.uml.edu
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> From sfrye@cs.uml.edu  Wed Mar  9 16:10:30 2005
> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:10:15 -0500 (EST)
> From: Scott Frye <sfrye@cs.uml.edu>
> To: Bob Lechner <lechner@cs.uml.edu>
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> Subject: Re: Q4. Exam1 - doesn't really require bde - read it again - but...
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> I can run BDE from my windows PC thru putty!!!!
> 
> 
> 1.) Started my Xwindow emulator.  I used Cygwin
> 2.) Created a Putty session to mercury.
> 3.) made sure in putty that Connection | SSH | Tunnels screen
> had "Enable X11 Forwarding" checked (it wasn't by default)
> 4.) logged into mecury
> 5.) Navigated to: 
> /usr/cs/fac1/lechner/bde2alpha_rl/sandbox/bdecheckout/bde/executables/i386-linux
> (using the environment variables professor lechner gave use.
> 6.) Typed "./bde.exe"
> 7.) Received the following output:
> 
> Using GENV12
> Current Runtime Environment:
> 
> In main at bde.cc:161
> Into init at init.cc:478
> 
> 
> 8.) Waited 3 minutes and 2 seconds. (tapping my foot occasionally)  after 
> 2 min and 30 seconds
> the bde window started drawing but took about 30 seconds to complete.
> 
> 
> 
> I have also copied the directory stucture to my Fedora3 Unix box 
> at home and it runs successfully.
> 
> I have been able to recompile it on my Fedora box successfully 
> as well.
> 
> I tried to compile it on my windows machine under cygwin but all the 
> X11 libraries are in different places and I haven't had time to change 
> change them all and get it working.
> 
> Let me know if I can do anything to help anyone run it OFF campus.  I'm an 
> hour away so I don't get to campus too often.
> 
> -Scott Frye
> 
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Bob Lechner wrote:
> 
> > Forwarded message:
> > > From lechner@cs.uml.edu  Wed Mar  9 13:40:08 2005
> > > Subject: Re: Q4. Exam1 - doesn't really require bde - read it againa - but...
> > > Cc: lechner@cs.uml.edu (Bob Lechner)
> > > > Subject: Q4. Exam1
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Professor,
> > > > ... Also I'm not able to run bde yet as I'm not sure how to do it ? 
> > > > I've set the class-path and also was able to copy the bde structure from 
> > > > bde2alpha_rev (have to face lot of access denied errors) but after 
> > > > that how do I proceed ?
> > > > 
> > > do you mean the CVS tagged version bde2alpha_rv?
> > > do you mean $RL = ~lechner/bde2alpha_rl/sandbox/bdecheckout/bde
> > > They both agree EXCEPT possibly bde/pr_util,
> > > which can be checked out (OK) or regenerated by genv12 (Not OK).
> > > 
> > > classpath is for java not unix??? 
> > > 
> > > Exam1 #4  says run genv12 and if possiblt t2b.
> > > The resulting .dat file can be inspected for conformance to
> > > .dat files in $RL/test (part of the bde tree you copied?).
> > > 
> > > Yon can RUN $RL/executables/bde on alpha or linux machines in lab.
> > > 
> > > You can also rebuild bde as I have been describing in too many emails
> > > already (but not with genv12 output to pr_util, 
> > > and not where ../lib does not exist,
> > > if you expect it to run)
> > > 
> > 
>