CPS 100, Fall 2002, Compiling/Xemacs

To compile/edit on the acpub/duke Sun workstations, we recommend that you use the xemacs editor and that you follow the steps below to ensure that xemacs will automatically indent your code properly. These steps also help ensure that when you type submit_cps100 this works, that you're running the right version of g++ (and Java in other courses) and the right version of xemacs.

If you've customized your .login and .cshrc files yourself you may not want to run the setup program described here. If you ran the setup program in a previous course, like cps 006, you should run it again.

  1. Run the program ~rodger/bin/setup.cps100, that is type: 
    
   ~rodger/bin/setup.cps100
    This will create a cps100 directory for you if you don't already have one (if you already have one it's fine to run the setup program anyway). You'll also be giving the TAs/Prof permission to read the files in this directory.

    The command also copies files from  ~rodger/newuser into your directory. It copies files like .emacs, .cshrc, .login, etc. You can view these files by typing ls -a, you need the -a option since these are so-called "dot" files and don't show up when you type 'ls'.

  2. You should run xemacs (type xemacs at a prompt) and then try editing a C++ program. If you type escape-X version (that's M-x version in emacs-speak) in emacs you should see some form of version 21.

  3. If something doesn't work, post news or ask a UTA/TA.
Susan H. Rodger
Last modified: Tue Jan 15 10:28:53 EST 2002