DevelopmentEnvironment

Development Environment

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Overview

Project framework is based on Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition - free IDE. Subversion is used as a version control system.

How To Setup Development Environment

Finish Joining the Project quest before trying below

• Setup Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition
• Setup Subversion
• Download Sources and Build
• Run and Debug Locally

Project Structure Guidelines

• Projects are not directly dependent on each other; if dependencies exist, related interfaces and binaries are copied into target project codebase
• Virtual folders should correspond to directories, except for below cases

* if folder contains files of different types - e.g. headers and C++, then we can create virtual folders to separate these types - e.g. "include" directory
* if folder has too many files to manage - we can split files by folders (but better to split files by subdirectories as well)

• Any project contains typical directories on top level:

* src - all sources, including C/C++ headers and body files
* bin - output files should be redirected to this location
* build - intermediate files, byproducts of build
* etc - configuration files if any
* lib - used libraries

• any project is included in one or more workspaces

* project corresponds to the build target
* workspace corresponds to the deployment target and has name:

"workspace.<deployment target name>"

Upgrading the Development Environment

General IDE requirements:

• Language is not P-code like Java - these programs work in sandbox and use quite heavy runtime
• IDE is free
• Evidence of successful discussion at forum

Usign External Libraries

• for each research area support several libraries implementing related features
• each external library should have been committed as is, with all sources
• customized library should have been specifically marked in the codebase
• any external library should have wrapper code, functioning as a facade (limiting library scope to only used one and conforming interfaces to aHuman codestyle and design giudelines)

Decommissioned child pages

• Setup Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 - stale due to migration to Codelite
• Setup Codelite - less convenient than Visual Studio