ThreadMentor: Compile and Run Your Programs

Since the CS Department does not use Windows machines for your programming assignments, we only discuss the way of compiling and running your programs on Linux. ThreadMentor uses Linux threads and Pthread on Linux.

Linux (64-bit)

CC       = c++
FLAGS    = 
CFLAGS   = -g -O2
DFLAGS   = -DPACKAGE=\"threadsystem\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -DPTHREAD=1 -DUNIX_MSG_Q=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1
IFLAGS   = -I/local/eit-linux/apps/ThreadMentor/include
TMLIB    = /local/eit-linux/apps/ThreadMentor/Visual/libthreadclass.a
TMLIB_NV    = /local/eit-linux/apps/ThreadMentor/NoVisual/libthreadclass.a

OBJ_FILE = quicksort.o quicksort-main.o
EXE_FILE = quicksort 

${EXE_FILE}: ${OBJ_FILE}
        ${CC} ${FLAGS}  -o ${EXE_FILE}  ${OBJ_FILE} ${TMLIB} -lpthread

quicksort.o: quicksort.cpp
        ${CC} ${DFLAGS} ${IFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} -c quicksort.cpp

quicksort-main.o: quicksort-main.cpp
        ${CC} ${DFLAGS} ${IFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} -c quicksort-main.cpp

noVisual: ${OBJ_FILE}
        ${CC} ${FLAGS}  -o ${EXE_FILE}  ${OBJ_FILE} ${TMLIB_NV} -lpthread
                                        
clean:
        rm -f ${OBJ_FILE} ${EXE_FILE}

By default, the above Makefile compiles a program with visualization activated. Thus, the following compiles the quicksort program with visualization:

make

make noVisual

Moreover, when you switch from visual to no visual and vice versa, you have to remove the previously generated *.o files. Use the following to remove *.o files:

make clean

To run your program successfully, one line must be added to your .cshrc file, which is in your home directory. You should modify the following if you use a different shell language.

set path=($path /local/eit-linux/apps/ThreadMentor/bin)

Windows