Simple Install

The installation is QSIM is not much simpler than it has been in the past. We are still working out some of the kinks so if you have any problems please contact us. This option is designed for people that will be installing QSIM on a small number of architectures and Lisp versions and who will not be modifying the baseline and recompiling QSIM on a regular basis. I suspect that this is a vast majority of the users. This option does not take advantage of the Common Lisp Defsystem and thus when recompiling QSIM all of the source files must be recompiled and the binary files will be stored in the same directory as the source.

1.

Unpack the tar file contained on the tape. This can be performed with the following command:

                 zcat beta.tar.Z | tar xvf -

2.

Modify the definition of *qsim-root* in the file start-nq-no-defsystem.lisp in the root QSIM directory.

3.

Compile the c-code to run xbatch. This is described in more detail in the write-up on the POS system modifications for the Unix environment. For this installation, place the compiled program (it is called xbatch) in the xpos directory. (This is only required when running under Unix. For Windows or the Mac, POS is not used.)

4.

Compile QSIM by loading the file start-nq-no-defsystem.lisp and executing (compile-qsim) from the user package.

5.

Test the installation by entering the qsim package (i.e. type in (in-package :qsim) and then execute the function (q) and select some models to run.

6.

The installation is now complete. In the future, QSIM can be loaded by loading start-nq-no-defsystem.lisp and executing (load-qsim).