• get the file dim.zip
• extract it onto a "dim" folder using: unzip -a

2. Installation

• cd dim
• (please use tcsh for the following to work)
• setenv OS <unix flavour>, <unix flavour> can be: HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, SunOS, OSF1, Linux, LynxOS, Darwin
• source .setup
• If you are on Linux RHEL9 64bits with gcc 11.3.1
  • executables and libraries are available in the linux directory.
• Otherwise:
  • gmake [options] all
  • possible options:
  • CPP=yes or no (default = yes) :
    Create also the DIM C++ class library
  • THREADS=yes or no (default = yes) :
    Use the DIM multithreaded version
  • CC=cc, gcc, etc. (default = gcc on Linux) :
    Define which C compiler to use
  • CXX=CC, g++, etc. (default = g++ on Linux) :
    Define which C++ compiler to use
  • JDIM= yes or no (default = no) :
    Create also a DIM shareable library to be used from java (libjdim.so)
    note: to create this library it is also necessary to do:
    setenv JDK_INCLUDE <your jdk include directory>
  • FLAGS=... :
    Extra user flags to pass to the compiler
  • EXTRALIBS=... :
    Extra user libraries to pass to the linker
     

• setenv DIM_DNS_NODE <node name>, <node name> is the complete name of the node where the DIM Name Server (Dns) will run ex. hpplus003.cern.ch
• Dns & ! Starts the Name Server
• Did & !Starts the DIM Display
• From then on you can start DIM servers and clients (some example servers and clients source code is available in dim/src/examples) you can start them by:
• Test_server <server name>
• Test_client <client name> <server name>
• In order to make your own servers and/or clients you have to link them with …dim/<OS type>/libdim.a and with -lpthread (you can use makefile_examples in the top directory as an example).
• Did