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Building SBW from scratch

• The first step two building SBW is to check your system. Please ensure that:
   
  • You have a version of python installed: Python.org You have scons installed: Scons @ SourceForge
  • Your version of libxml2 is fairly new (that is the file:

    /usr/include/libxml2/libxml/xmlwriter.h

    is present. Otherwise you will need to update it: libxml.org

    
    
  Check out the latest code from SourceForge:

  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jdesigner login

  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jdesigner co -P C++Broker

  
  Change into the directory C++Broker and invoke:

  scons or scons debug=1 for a DEBUG build

  
  By now the SBW core (Broker + SBW C/C++ bindings) should be build. Which gives you the SBW Framework. To set it up properly you will need to set some environment variables (best done in your .profile file):
   
  • SBW_HOME<C++Broker cvs dir> e.g. export SBW_HOME=~/C++BROKER
  • LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$SBW_HOME/lib
  
   
• Finally enable SBW Modules to automatically start up the Broker by creating a file:

  ~/.sbw/brokerfile

  containing the path to the Broker executable e.g. ~/C++Broker/bin/Broker. That's it, now you can start developing SBW modules in your favorite programming language. How about python?