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- SNNS Version 3.2 Installation
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- Note that SNNS has not been tested extensively in different computer
- environments and is a research tool with frequent substantial changes.
- It should be obvious that we don't guarantee anything. We are also not
- staffed to answer problems with SNNS or to fix bugs quickly.
-
- SNNS currently runs on colour or black and white Sun-3, Sun-4 (SPARC)
- systems under SunOS 4.1.1 with X-Windows X11R4 and X11R5 (Athena
- widget set, twm, MIT fonts etc.) and under Sun OpenWindows 3.0. It
- also runs on DecStations with MIPS R3000 Processor with X-Windows
- X11R4 and X11R5. It has not been tested on out of the box DecStations
- with DecWindows. It has also been tested recently on the IBM RS 6000
- with AIX version 3.2. In general, the SNNS kernel will run on almost
- any Unix system, while the graphical user interface might give
- problems with systems which are not fully X11R4 (or X11R5) compatible.
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- To build SNNS in the directory in which you have moved it you first
- have to generate the correct Makefiles for your machine architecture
- and window system used. To do this, simply call the shell script
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- configure
-
- This prompts you for information about the machine architecture and
- the window system and builds all necessary makefiles with this
- information. It uses templates found in the directory configuration
- for this task. At the end of this script, you will be told about the
- next step to build the simulator.
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- The next step to build the simulator is usually to build the kernel,
- the tools and the graphical user interface with the command
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- build all
-
- or with the three commands
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- build kernel
- build xgui
- build tools
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- This script descends into the appropriate subdirectories and calls the
- makefiles in these subdirectoires to compile all necessary source
- files and link the object files into one executable file. The
- executable is located in
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- <SNNS-dir.>/xgui/bin/<architecture>/xgui
-
- where <SNNS-dir.> is the current SNNS directory and <architecture> is
- the machine architecure, e.g. sun3, sparc, dec, rs6000, hp9000,
- pc386, or others.
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- We usually build a symbolic link named 'snns' to point to this
- executable if we often work on the same machine architecture.
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- ln -s xgui/bin/<architecture>/xgui snns
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- This link may also be placed in the user home directory (with the
- proper path prefix to SNNS) or in a directory of binaries in the local
- users' search path.
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- The simulator is then called simply with
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- snns
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- For further details about calling the simulator and working with the
- graphical user interface see the user manual.
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