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AliEn package for Windows users

AliEn package for Windows users. Artem Harutyunyan 1,2,3 Arsen Hayrapetyan 1,2,4 1 Yerevan Physics Institute 2 Armenian e-Science Foundation 3 State Engineering University of Armenia 4 Yerevan State University. Contents.

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AliEn package for Windows users

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  1. AliEn package for Windows users Artem Harutyunyan1,2,3Arsen Hayrapetyan1,2,4 1Yerevan Physics Institute 2Armenian e-Science Foundation 3State Engineering University of Armenia 4Yerevan State University

  2. Contents • Progress in the AliEn client software (version 1.32-14) port to Windows since the last report of Artem Harutyunyan at Alice off-line meeting (15.07.2004) • AliEn distributions for Linux and Windows • AliEn setup.exe for Windows (http://cern.ch/hartem/AliEn-1.32-14-setup.exe , http://cern.ch/hartem/README.htm)

  3. Status of the port reported by Artem at Alice off-line meeting (15.07.2004)

  4. Solved problems • Problem with the lack of functionality of some bash utilities (e.g. ps, grep) on Windowshas been resolved by writing wrappers for these utilities • Windows case-insensitivity caused problem with Perl module names.It has been resolved by adding to the class AliEn::SE::Methods a method (called MSSExactMatch) which forms the exact name of the module to be loaded

  5. Still not ported: • <tab> and <tab><tab> -persisting problem • GUI • API }their port was not considered yet

  6. Today status

  7. AliEn distributions for Linux and Windows Linux Windows Perl (version 5.8.0) Active Perl (version 5.8.0) Grid-proxy-* Windows Grid-proxy-init (WGPI) Dynamic link libraries (.so) Dynamic link libraries (.dll) GNU utilities (bash, etc)

  8. Alien setup.exe for WindowsIs created using Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) tool

  9. AliEn setup.exe for Windows: details • Installs AliEn client in the predefined directory c:\opt\alien, as well as creates directory trees c:\tmp\*, c:\home\* and c:\dev\* (in case they are absent) • Creates a file called Environment to initialize variables by reading Windows Registry key values (example of a key for the hostname of machine: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ Parameters\Hostname)

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