
A note for those installing their own VIP systems
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Before compiling programs and libaries for your own installation of
VIP you will need to edit the Makefiles in these subdirectories to
suit your own system.  The section you need to edit is indicated for
you.

VIP is currently used on SUN, DEC Alpha and PC - LINUX systems.  We
have no experience of using VIP on other machines but we believe that
with appropriate setting of compilation flags it should be possible to
compile the system on a wide variety of machines.  You will need to
edit the vip.h include file to do this.  The existing settings used
for SUN, DEC Alpha and LINUX systems should provide useful examples
for you.

The code requires an ANSI C compiler.  We used the GNU gcc compiler.
Note that the Makefiles use the -Wall flag (report all warnings -
equivalent to a lint), however, as yet not all code can been fixed to
compile cleanly under this option.  Accordingly do not be alarmed at
all the warnings that will appear on your screen.


If you have any problems please mail me at pk@cs.uwa.edu.au 

While we will endevour to help you as much as possible, we do not have
the resources to support VIP on a full-time basis and our ability to
help you may be limited.

Good Luck,


Peter Kovesi
Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Australia

