• DevelopmentVM

Virtual Machine for ASC Programming

In order to get quick results without the hassle of setting up the ASC Development Environment, we have created a virtual machine where everything is prepared for you. This is most useful for Windows, as building on Linux is trivial.

A new virtual machine has been published on 2011-06-13 and replaces the old one. Changes are:

• newer Linux
• contains latest ASC sources
• uses Mercurial as version control (we changed from CVS to Mercurial in 2010)
• uses Eclipse as IDE

Using it is simple:

1. Download and install Virtual Box. It's free and open source!

2. Download our virtual machine: http://terdon.asc-hq.org/asc/asc-development-machine.zip (1.8G, MD5 is 22b6f2251e772be3f45a81f6e2108424)

3. Uncompress it

4. Load it in VirtualBox: File -> Import Appliance

5. Start it

6. Please note that the machine has been configured for a german keyboard layout. If you have a different one, specify it at System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts

Once started, you will find an Eclipse icon, which opens an IDE with the ASC source code loaded and configured.

To get the latest sources, open the console (icon on desktop) and type

cd asc
hg pull
hg update
./conf

In case you need to do administrative tasks, username is asc, password is asc (as the virtual machine cannot be contacted from the outside due to its NAT network, this is perfectly safe)