SCAM Documentation

Tim TimeWaster <tim@cuba.xs4all.nl>

Installation

System Requirements

Your system must be a UNIX system with termios.h. Linux is fine. BSD systems use termio.h and unfortunately SCAM does not support it yet.
An ANSI C++ compiler.
GNU make. Perhaps another make also works.
Perl 5.

Compiling and Installing

Go to the rascal subdirectory and type make, after editing the Makefile in that directory:

~/scam $ cd rascal
~/scam/rascal $ make

A few object files will be created now, please ignore the warnings.

Now, go to the src directory, edit the Makefile if necessary and type make:

~/scam/rascal $ cd ../src
~/scam/src $ make

SCAM will compile now, please ignore any warnings. After compilation you can strip the executable:

~/scam/src $ make strip

This will reduce the executable's size. Now you can put the executable wherever you want:

~/scam/src $ mv scam ..
~/scam/src $ cd ..
~/scam $

Now you can run SCAM as an interactive program. If you want to use the front-end a few files have to be created first. With a little luck, the files already exist and you can skip this.

Create two named pipes, called scam_err and scam_out:

~/scam $ mkfifo scam_err
~/scam $ mkfifo scam_out

If you do not have mkfifo, try mknod -p.