Aggregate & Table Language and System

ATLaS 1.4 Installation Guide

Choose your platform:

• Windows
• Linux

Installation for Windows:

1. Download ATLaS 1.4.17(on MinGW GCC 3.2) and extract to c:\;

   NOTE: Please don't change the default directory c:\

   If there is conflict with your existing MinGW/Cygwin, please contact us for help.

2. Include c:\MinGW\bin in your PATH variable.

Make sure c:\MinGW\bin appears before c:\Cygwin\bin if you already have Cygwin installed.

3. Choose one of the following editors for ATLaS, which we provide customized menu script including syntax highlighting, compilation and execution:
• CREdit--A nice freeware editor! (Recommended)
  1. Download and install CREdit from http://www.praven3.com/credit
  2. Follow the instructions in the file C:\Atlas\editors\CREdit_Readme.txt.
• XEmacs
1. Download XEmacs from www.xemacs.org
2. Put atlas.el into your script directory(e.g C:\.xemacs\)
3. Add the following lines into c:\init.el:
   (setq load-path (cons "c:/.xemacs" load-path))
   (autoload 'atlas-mode "atlas" "ATLaS mode." t)
   (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.adl$" . atlas-mode))
   
• WinEdt
  
  1. Download WinEdit from www.winedt.com
     
  2. Follow the Instuction
• Your own editor!
  

  For sure you can use your own editor. After finishing editing the source file, e.g. c:\atlas\test.adl, you can run the following command in a DOS window:
      c:\atlas\compile c:\atlas\test.adl
  

  After successful compilation, an executable file c:\atlas\adlout.exe is generated. Then you can run it in the DOS window:
      c:\atlas\adlout
  

  You are encouraged to customized your own editor and submit the script file to us. We will publish it on our web site upon successful testing.

That's it. Enjoy ATLaS!

Installation for Linux:

1. Download:

   • Use "gcc -v" to test your gcc version.

   • For gcc 3.2

     ATLaS 1.4.17 (Built on Redhat 8.0)
     

   • For gcc 2.9x

     ATLaS 1.4.3 for gcc 2.96.

2. (Optional) Choose one of the following editors for ATLaS, which we provide customized menu script including syntax highlighting, compilation and execution:

   • XEmacs
   1. Download XEmacs from www.xemacs.org

      Skip this stpe if you already have XEmacs installed. Type "xemacs" in the shell command line to see if it's installed.

   2. Put atlas-linux.el into your script directory(e.g ~/.xemacs/)

   3. Add the following lines into ~/.xemacs/init.el:
      (setq load-path (cons "~/.xemacs" load-path))
      (autoload 'atlas-mode "atlas-linux" "ATLaS mode." t)
      (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.adl$" . atlas-mode))
      
   • Emacs
   1. Most Linux system comes with Emacs. If you don't have Emacs, download Emacs from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/

      Type "emacs" in the shell command line to see if it's installed.

   2. Put atlas-linux.el into your script directory(e.g /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/)

   3. Add the following lines into ~/.emacs:
      (autoload 'atlas-mode "atlas-linux" "ATLaS mode." t)
      (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.adl$" . atlas-mode))
      

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