Obtaining and Compiling Source Code

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Getting source code

You can get the Seti@home for BOINC source code in several ways:

Download a tarball or .zip file (generated nightly).
Browse the CVS repository via a web-based interface.

Access the CVS repository directly, e.g. with a command like

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@alien.ssl.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs/cvsroot checkout seti_boinc

Join the Seti@home for BOINC SourceForge project.

Building the SETI Application

The top level directory of the build tree is seti_boinc. You will need to build the boinc library/api such that the seti_boinc build can find it. See seti_boinc/m4/sah_check_boinc.m4 for the complete list of possible locations. An easy way to arrange things is to put boinc and seti_boinc at the same level:

	my_build_dir/
		boinc/
		seti_boinc/

Once this is set up and you have built boinc, cd into seti_boinc and:

	./configure
	make

Testing Your Build

Copy your application executable into seti_boinc/client/test_workunits.
In that directory rename reference_work_unit.sah to work_unit.sah.

Run the seti app in standalone mode. For example:

        ./setiathome_4.02_sparc-sun-solaris2.7 -standalone

Compare your result with the reference result (reference_result_unit.sah).

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