Windows Installation

The Windows installation is very easy. Just download the zip compressed folder and unzip it at the destination of your choice. After that change into that directory and doubleclick on the profdist_qt.exe file.

Mac OS Installation

Download the .dmg file and drag the application to your application folder. Furthermore you can drag the data folder to your documents folder.

Linux Installation

To build ProfDist you require the GNU C++ compiler tools. Usually every Linux distribution has these tools installed by default. If not visit the GCC homepage http://gcc.gnu.org, download the latest package and install it. During development the GCC-4.2.3 compiler has been used. ProfDist needs the following frameworks and libraries to compile:

• Boost 1.34.1 C++ Library (www.boost.org)
• Qt 4.3 Framework, Trolltech (www.trolltech.com)
• CMake 2.4 build system (www.cmake.org)

If you have successfully installed the above libraries we can proceed to the build process. If you have downloaded the profdist_qt-0.9.8.tar.gz file uncompress its content to a destination of your choice:

After that change into the new created directory profdist_qt-0.9.8 and create a new directory called build: This directory is the place where all the object files are built and stored. Later you will also find here the libraries and the ProfDist executable. Now change into the directory build/ and run Now you have the chance to configure some important environment variables the build system needs to compile the project. Therefor you can start the graphical user configuration tool of cmake called ccmake: Now you should see something on your display similar to the following screenshot: Here you can for example change the installation path by editing the variable called CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. By default this variable is set to /usr/local and should normally be appropriate for your needs. You can move the cursor to the entry you want to change and press enter to edit this variable. If you are ready press c to let cmake configure the project and in addition press g to generate the makefiles. After cmake successfully configured the project run the following command to compile ProfDist: If the project compiled without an error you can now type the following commands to install the project into the destinated location of your system (as mentioned above this is the value of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX; this is by default /usr/local): Note that you have to call these last two commands as superuser to succeed. If all this worked without any error you can now type to start ProfDist.