Prerequsites:

• Boost (old versions are OK; we actually variously use 1.33.1 and 1.42)
• SCons
• G++ or MSVC

Optional prerequsites for the scons tests pseudotarget (or scons all):

• cmake
• internet connection (will download Google Test automatically; no system-wide installation is done)

Optional prerequsites for Doxygen documentation:

• Doxygen (we use 1.7.1)

Optional prerequsites for Latex documentation:

• Latex (we use TexLive 2010, but it has also built with MikTex)
• pygments <http://pygments.org/>
• dot2tex <http://www.fauskes.net/code/dot2tex/> (optional even if you are building the documentation; we have 2.8.7)

To build, simply run scons. By default, this will build the library (a shared library with GCC and a static library for MSVC) and OpenNWA executables. Other possible targets are:

• addons Build the contents of AddOns/, such as the XML WPDS parser
• examples Build the contents of Examples/

• tests Build the contents of Tests/, including the NWA unit tests. The NWA unit tests build to Tests/harness/unit-tests/unit-tests (or unit-tests.exe) but are not automatically run. The tests must be run from the Tests/harness/unit-tests directory, but a wrapper script unit-tests.sh exists at the top level to change to that directory and run them.

  CMake either needs to be picked up by SCons by default (and it does NOT look at your $PATH) or set the $CMAKE environment variable to point to the executable.

  The NWA tests are actually reasonably complete, relative to the Latex documentation. TODO.txt mentions the omissions. Also mostly omitted are a number of functions that did not make it into the Latex documentation.

• all Build everything! (This target is currently broken. Sorry.)

You can pass arch=x86 to SCons if you are on a 64-bit Linux machine to get a 32-bit build. (The 32 and 64 bit builds live next to each other, so they can coexist.) Note: because of the way cmake is called for the Google Test library, you probably won't be able to do this for the tests or all pseudo-targets.

You can also pass CXX=... to pick the particular compiler, e.g. scons CXX=icc. (If you are using compilers other than GCC or CL, you'll probably also have to pass strong_warnings=0 to disable a bunch of -W flags that your compiler probably doesn't understand.)

There is also a Visual Studio 2005 project, though the NWA unit tests aren't hooked up for this at all.

WALi and OpenNWA are built to a single library, which will be copied into the lib/ or lib64/ directory. Addons will be built to other shared libraries in that directory.

To get Doxygen output, run doxygen Doxyfile from the top-level directory. By default, it will generate HTML output to Doc/doxygen/html and Latex output to Doc/doxygen/latex. (Run make in the latter directory to build the Latex to a PDF.)

To build the NWA documentation, change to Doc/opennwa/ and run pdflatex on opennwa.tex, passing -shell-escape. (-shell-escape is required by the pygmentize package, used for source-highlighting the example code at the beginning.) If you would like to rebuild the figures (though this is not necessary if you do not change them), change to Doc/opennwa/Figures and run make. Note that a couple of the figures used in the official version of the NWA manual have been modified by hand, and regenerating them will cause those changes to be lost.

The NWA documentation is a little bit... strange. It doesn't quite know what it wants to be. It's way too long to just sit down and read, but is probably less convenient to use as a reference than, say, Doxygen comments would be. (The exception is the function tables at the end of the document.) But... we also have Doxygen comments, and they aren't usually the same. So at some point in the future, we need to unify the comments. (In virtually all cases, the Latex documentation is far more detailed.)

My suggestion is to look over sections 1 ("Library Overview") and 3 ("The NWA class"), and then refer to the more detailed sections as appropriate.