How to Build caGrid 1.1

Install Prerequisite Software and obtain a caGrid release

Set the following environment variables:

JAVA_HOME (pointing to the root directory of the java installation)
ANT_HOME (pointing to the root directory of the ant installation)
GLOBUS_LOCATION (pointing to the root directory of the Globus installation)
CAGRID_LOCATION (pointing to the root directory of the caGrid installation : this is optional and not used by the build, but these instructions use it for simplicity)

Add ANT_HOME/bin and JAVA_HOME/bin to your environments PATH variable

Microsoft has a help page describing how to set environment variables under Windows XP.

To validate that we have installed Java, and Ant correctly.

 %> java -version

%> ant -version

Result of running java -version

To validate that we have installed Globus correctly, we will start up the globus container.

 %> cd %GLOBUS_LOCATION%\bin

%> globus-start-container -nosec

Result of starting globus

Before any caGrid tools can be used, the software must be built. To (re-)build caGrid at any time type these commands:

 %> cd %CAGRID_LOCATION%

%> ant all

You can run the testing suite of caGrid locally, from your caGrid directory.

To run the test suite type:

ant test

NOTE: To run the tests you may need to copy junit.jar to ANT_HOME/lib. e.g.(in windows)

cp %GLOBUS_LOCATION%\lib\junit.jar %ANT_HOME%\lib

OR (in unix)

cp $GLOBUS_LOCATION/lib/junit.jar $ANT_HOME/lib

NOTE: Some of the tests require a MySQL database to be installed and accessible via local JDBC.

To see all the documented ant targets available, type the following from your caGrid directory:

ant -p