DEVS: Building from source

[Seaxouri]

Here is some updated information.

Sourceforge has changed their CVS access slightly since the original writing of the above note. To make things convenient, for developer access I usually run a small script /bin/seq that looks like this:

export CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT=:ext:[email protected]:/cvsroot/seq
cd ~/seq

If you are performing anonymous downloads, your script /bin/seq might look like this:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/seq
cd ~/seq

To inject the settings into my current shell, I run the script using:

. seq

That is a dot, then space, before the "seq". You need the dot.

Once that is done, you can extract the source code with:

cvs co myseq (to get the HEAD)
or
cvs co -r beta_1-20 myseq (to get the Beta v1.20 branch)

You should protect the DLL files in the client folder. The C# Visual Express tool defaults to deleting these files during any clean or rebuild operation. This is fixed in Service Pack 1 of Visual C# Express 2005, but it may be better to protect them by simply:

cd myseq/client
chmod -w+x *.dll *.DLL

You can also use commands like:

cvs status -> (gets the status of any file)
cvs update -> (updates the file to the latest)
cvs commit -> (commits the changed file to the repository)
cvs log -> (shows a log history of a file)

For more information: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=10131
Note: To use all of this, you need to install Cygwin.