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## Makefile Utilities Configuration

Once you have installed the files, you need to configure the makefile utilities and tools to allow you to compile the libraries. If you are compiling under DOS or a Windows DOS box, you will need to set the environment for your DOS box to at least 4096 bytes as we use a lot of environment variables.

The first step to set up the compile environment is always to edit the set-vars script files specific to your platform (copy it to a different named file if you are working with source code checked out of Perforce as this file will be read only). This file contains two very important variables that you need to ensure are set correctly. These are:

SCITECH | Points to the location where you installed the files
SCITECH_LIB | Should be the same as the above

The SCITECH_LIB variable is where files get copied to when you do a dmake install, and is usually the same as the SCITECH variable. However it can be different if you wish the libraries to be installed to a different path such as on a shared file server for release builds.

To help you get started configuring your system we have created a number of startup script files for each of the different operating systems. These files are called in the %SCITECH%\start-sdk.* files with an extension specific to each OS. These files contain the necessary sequence of steps to call the appropriate batch files to set up the compile environment. To use this copy this file to a new filename and edit to call your version of the set-vars script file as necessary.

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