PTP/environment setup

PTP Developer Environment Setup (PTP 2.0)

Prerequisites

1. Java 1.5 or later (Note: for Linux, must be Sun or IBM's)
2. Eclipse 3.3.x
3. CDT 4.0
4. OpenMPI 1.2 (the earlier 1.0.2 version is also supported)
5. gdb 6.3 or later (earlier versions may also work)

Setup

1. Download and Install Eclipse 3.3
2. Install CDT 4.0 (*Note: to build PTP you may need the complete CDT SDK (Instructions below install the CDT runtime). Instead of the Europa Discovery Site, use http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/europa as the update site to get the CDT SDK too.)
   1. Launch Eclipse as root
   2. From the menu select: Help->Software Update->Find and Install
   3. Select Search for new features to install, click Next
   4. Select Europa Discovery Site, click Finish
   5. Select a valid mirror, click Ok
   6. Expand Europa Discovery Site and select C and C++ Development, click Next
   7. Read and check I accept click Next and Finish.
   8. Click Install All
3. Install RSE 2.0
   1. Launch Eclipse as root
   2. From the menu select: Help->Software Update->Find and Install
   3. Select Search for new features to install, click Next
   4. Select Europa Discovery Site, click Finish
   5. Select a valid mirror, click Ok
   6. Expand Europa Discovery Site and select Remote Access and Device Development->Remote System Explorer..., click Next
   7. Read and check I accept click Next and Finish.
   8. Click Install All
4. Setup CVS Access (Howto)
   1. In Eclipse switch to CVS Repository Exploring perspective.
   2. Click on the Add CVS Repository Icon in the CVS Repositories view.
   3. Add the following information, then click Finish:
      1. Host - dev.eclipse.org
      2. Repository Paths - /cvsroot/tools
      3. User - anonymous
      4. Password - (leave blank)
      5. Connection Type - pserver
5. Checkout current project from CVS
   1. Expand Head->org.eclipse.ptp
   2. Expand core directory and select all projects except old , org.eclipse.ptp.simulation.core , and org.eclipse.simulation.ui
   3. Right-click and select 'Check Out'
   4. Expand debug directory and select all projects except old
   5. Right-click and select 'Check Out'
   6. Expand releng directory and select all projects except old
   7. Right-click and select 'Check Out'
   8. Expand rms directory and select the resource manager(s) you need. Probably at least orte, and possibly not bluegene.
   9. Right-click and select 'Check Out'
   10. (Optional, to get PLDT) Expand tools directory and select all the org.eclipse.ptp.pldt* projects.
   11. Right-click and select 'Check Out'
6. Build OpenMPI Proxy
   1. Follow OpenMPI build directions as listed in PTP Release Notes
   2. Follow the same directions to build your proxy plugin, make sure it is the one in your workspace directory.
      1. Be sure to export this environment variable before compiling: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
7. Close unrelated projects.
   1. Close org.eclipse.ptp.debug.sdm , org.eclipse.ptp.orte.proxy , org.eclipse.ptp.proxy.tests
8. Create an eclipse application launch configuration
   1. Click on org.eclipse.ptp.core, Click on Run, Run as Eclipse Application
9. Enjoy!!!

References

Eclipse Downloads [1] CDT Downloads Page [2] CVS Howto [3] PTP Release Notes [4]