Configuring your development environment

The easiest way to work on the computer assignments is to use a virtual image that contains all the tools and dependencies you will need.

Using the virtual-image

First, you will need to install Docker on your system.

Then, retrieve the course’s docker image with

$ docker pull pablooliveira/compil

To run the image, if you are on a unix-like system run

$ docker run -it -v "$(pwd)":/compil pablooliveira/compil /bin/bash

If instead you are on a windows system run

$ docker run -it -v %cd%:/compil pablooliveira/compil /bin/bash

Once inside the image you should move to the /compil directory where your host’s local directory has been mounted.

Configuring the development environment from scratch

If you want to configure the development environment from scratch, we recommend that you use a Debian/Ubuntu like distribution. Ensure that you use a 64bit distribution. Please install the following dependencies. Replace [version] with the llvm version included in your distribution, the labs in this course have been tested with version going from 3.9 to 9.0.

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential flex bison libboost-program-options-dev llvm-[version]-dev clang-[version] llvm-[version]-tools libz-dev autotools-dev automake autoconf libtool gdb git wget