Rudiments Guide

Downloading Rudiments:

You can download the most current source distribution of rudiments from http://www.firstworks.com.

Unpacking Rudiments:

To unpack the distribution, copy the file to a location on your machine that you have access to and execute the following commands:

This will create a rudiments-X.XX directory. Change directories into that directory.

Compiling Rudiments:

To compile Rudiments, read the INSTALL file, then execute the following commands:

Rudiments should compile and function on unix-based systems using the GNU development system. Other compilers may work too but have not been tested on the current version.

NOTE: to compile on Cygwin, the file command must be present. If it is not, the build will fail and you will get a very cryptic error.

Installing Rudiments:

To install Rudiments, become root and execute:

By default, everything is installed under /usr/local/firstworks.

To uninstall Rudiments, become root and execute:

Classes:

For descriptions of each of the rudiments classes, see the Rudiments Reference.