File Release Notes and Changelog
Notes:
(Note that it may be easier and cheaper to
keep your Lava installation up-to-date
by checking it out and updating it from
our SourceForge CVS repository, which
always reflects at least the state of
the most recent downloadable release.)
How to install LavaPE on LINUX
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Download the compressed tar file of the
LavaPE source distribution and store it
in the parent directory of the envisaged
lavape installation directory.
Uncompress it using the command
tar xjvf lavape-<release>-src.tar.bz2
Read lavape/INSTALL for the details
and pre-requisites of a successfull
installation. (In particular, you need
to have GNU gcc/make and the developer version
of TrollTech/Qt on your Linux box; install
them from your Linux distribution CDs if necessary.)
Then build the LavaPE executables as follows:
cd lavape
make
This will take quite a while.
You will find the executables
of the Lava Programming Environment
in lavape/bin thereafter:
"LavaPE", "Lava", and "LPC".
(The Lava Precompiler "LPC" is needed
only during the build process.)
Launch "LavaPE", consult the Online Help,
open some sample programs from the
lavape/samples directory and enjoy the
unique structure editing features of LavaPE.
We'd appreciate very much if you would inform
us (e-mail: guenthk@users.sourceforge.net)
about any problems that you have encounterd
during the installation or while using
Lava/LavaPE.
But let us also know if you could successfully
install and use LavaPE. We could test it only
on SuSE Linux 9.2 and Windows XP, so far. We use
always the most recent Qt release.
How to install the binary release of LavaPE on Windows
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Simply launch the downloaded lavape-<rel>.exe file and
follow the instructions of the installer.
How to build Lava/LavaPE on Windows from the source tarball
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This makes sense only if you have MS DevStudio and the
(non-free, commercial) version of Qt. Set environment
variables
QTDIR=<Qt installation directory>
QTR=<(Qt release without dots, e.g.: 332>
QTRDOT=<Qt release with dots, e.g.: 3.3.2>
and add the Qt source, include, lib, and bin directories
to the directory list under DevStudio/Options/Directories.
Use an appropriate unpacker program to unpack the Lava
source tarball to a directory of your choice, say <lavape>.
Open the DevStudio workspace
<lavape>\src\LavaPE.dsw
and build the projects "Precompiler", "LavaPE", and "Lava"
in their debug configuration(build the "Precompiler" first).
Thereafter you can start the LavaPE.exe/Lava.exe executables
from DevStudio or from a file manager or DOS box. They are
in directory <lavape>\src\LavaPE\Debug.
Online help will work only if you copy the <lavape>\doc
directory to <lavape>\src\LavaPE.
The "AttacDemo.lava" and the corresponding Lava document file
"AttachDemo.ldoc" can be opened successfully in the Lava
interpreter only if you create a sub-directory "Components"
in <lavape>\src\LavaPE and copy <lavape>\samples\LCompoImpl.lcom
to this Components directory. (It suffices to create a
"LcompoImpl.lcom.lnk" link that points to
<lavape>\samples\LCompoImpl.lcom.)
Changes:
New or changed features:
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The debugger now displays also the values of function and
operator input and output parameters (and "self") if you stop
on a function/operator call immediately before the body
of the function/operator is entered, and also immediately
after you have stepped out of a function/operator body.
WhatsThis and WhatNext help has been extended.
HowTo help is still missing.
Bug fixes:
=========
Several bugs related to the display and management
of breakpoints in the Lava debugger have been
removed.
A number of minor bugs has been fixed.
