Getting Started: Checking the installation


 

If you have not already installed gbeta, then please do that before you proceed here. In this section it is assumed that you have installed in your $HOME directory. If not, you must adjust some paths accordingly.

Checking that gbeta is there

Generally the experiments in this section take place in the start directory:

cd $HOME/gbeta-0.9/examples/start

First try to execute gbeta without arguments, like this:

gbeta

If the interpreter invocation script is in the PATH or otherwise reachable, and if the interpreter itself is present for the current platform, and if it can find the grammar specifications, then you will get an informative startup message like this:

GBETA version 0.9, copyright (C) 1997-2001 Erik Ernst.
This is free software, and you are welcome..

If you can get this message, the installation is probably working.

Next, we'll run an actual program!

 


Signed by: eernst@cs.auc.dk. Last Modified: 3-Jul-01