Build From Package Ubuntu64

From Emergent

These are step-by-step directions for building from the source code under Kubuntu 64-bit.

Prepare your environment

Paste this into your shell to permanently setup your PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, EMERGENTDIR and QTDIR environment variables. If you've already done one of those, you may delete that particular line:

#!/bin/bash
BASHRC=~/.bashrc
touch $BASHRC

cat >> $BASHRC << Emergent

export PATH=\$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
export EMERGENTDIR=/home/`whoami`/emergent
# Check the following line to be sure it has the Qt version you're actually installing!
export QTDIR=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.2

Emergent
source $BASHRC
tail -n6 $BASHRC # Print what we just appended to this file

Install emergent's prerequisites

Run this command to grab all the packages you need to compile emergent:

sudo apt-get install g++ libtool autoconf automake subversion libreadline5-dev \
libqt4-debug libqt4-gui libqt4-dev libqt4-qt3support \
libcoin40-dev libcoin40-doc libcoin40-runtime \
libode0-dev libode-doc libode0debian1 libgsl0 libgsl0-dev \
libsimage20c2 libsimage-dev libsndfile1 libsndfile1-dev

Download and install SoQt

Download SoQt to /tmp, unpack it and configure it :

wget -O- http://ftp.coin3d.org/coin/src/all/SoQt-1.4.1.tar.gz | tar -C/tmp -xzf-
cd /tmp/SoQt-1.4.1
./configure --disable-debug 

Make sure you see "checking version of Qt library... 4xx" and not 3xx in the long output of that last command.

sudo make install

Download the emergent source code

This will download the latest source code to ~/emergent. Do the following logged in as the regular user, not the root user:

svn checkout --username anonymous --password emergent http://grey.colorado.edu/svn/emergent/emergent/trunk ~/emergent

Build Emergent

To build emergent, run these commands as the regular user:

cd ~/emergent && autoreconf && ./configure && make
sudo make install

With the default install, emergent will be in /usr/local/bin, and you can just type emergent to run it. Support files, including demos, test cases and standard library files for css are located in /usr/local/share/emergent

Optional: Add an Emergent icon to the startup menu

First become root: (sudo su on Ubuntu) and then paste this into the terminal

echo Creating /usr/share/applications/Emergent.desktop K menu item
cat > /usr/share/applications/Emergent.desktop <<Emergent

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Education;
Exec=env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/emergent %f
GenericName=Neural Network Simulation Software
Hidden=false
Icon=/usr/local/share/Emergent/images/emergent_32x32.png
Icon[en_US]=/usr/local/share/Emergent/images/emergent_32x32.png
Name=Emergent
Name[en_US]=Emergent
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
Comment[en_US]=Neural Network Simulation Software
Comment=Neural Network Simulation Software

Emergent

echo Creating /etc/xdg/menus/emergent.menu for application menu item
cat > /etc/xdg/menus/emergent.menu <<Emergent

<Menu>
 <Menu>
  <Name>Education</Name>
  <Layout>
   <Merge type="files" />
   <Filename>Emergent.desktop</Filename>
  </Layout>
  <Include>
   <Filename>Emergent.desktop</Filename>
  </Include>
 </Menu>
</Menu>

Emergent

In KDE, you can now navigate to K Menu > Edutainment > Miscellaneous > Emergent and drag that to your panel if you like. On Gnome it shows up in Menu > Education > Emergent.