• 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 cwhere everything is prepared for you. This is most useful for Windows, as building on Linux is trivial.

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/ascdev-ubuntu.vdi.bz2 (720 MB, MD5 is 1c0f7a1999d59ff6d0d1f7d291fb9eec)

3. Uncompress it

4. Load it in VirtualBox

   1. New

   2. Name: whatever you like

   3. OS Type: Ubuntu
   4. Base Memory size:
      • recommend 512 MB (if you at least 768 MB in your machine)
      • 330 MB if you have only 512 MB in your machine
      • if you have less than 512 MB in your machine: it will probably not be usable...

   5. HardDisk: choose the file you have uncompressed: ascdev-ubuntu.vdi

   6. That it. Press start

      • if it doesn't boot, go to Generation options and enable IO APIC

5. 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)

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 it has started, it's fairly simple to use. There are 3 icons on the desktop:

• Update ASC sources: fetches the latest source code from our CVS server
• Link to configure_asc: runs the build system's configure script, which is necessary after bigger changes (for example when new source files have been added)
• ASC.kdevelop: Opens the integrated build environment, from which you can edit, compile, debug and lots more.