Preparing A Release

Building a Binary Distribution

Building a binary distribution is straightforward. From the prism directory, where PRISM is usually, compiled, run:

make release

This makes sure that PRISM is compiled, builds prism.jar containing all the Java class files, and assembles all the files needed into, for example, release/prism-4.5-osx64.tar.gz.

By default, the version number (4.5 above) is automatically extracted from prism/Version.java, but can be overridden if required:

make release VERSION=4.4.1

The platform name (osx64 above) is derived automatically from the current build. If you were building, for example, a 32-bit release from a 64-bit OS, you might use:

make clean_all && make ARCH=

The build process works in the same way under Windows (compiling from within Cygwin), but this also requires NSIS to be installed (and makensis to be in your path).