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Using Sun WorkShop

Preface

Using Sun WorkShop introduces you to the basic program development features of Sun(TM) WorkShop(TM). This book describes how to:

Who Should Use This Book

This manual is for application developers who want to use the main development features of Sun WorkShop. For a discussion of Sun WorkShop program analysis tools, see Analyzing Program Performance With Sun WorkShop. For a discussion of Sun WorkShop debugging tools, see Debugging a Program With dbx.

How This Book Is Organized

Using Sun WorkShop contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, About Sun WorkShop" is an overview of the Sun WorkShop programming environment. This chapter also highlights the components available in the various Sun WorkShop products.

Chapter 2, Getting Started" explains what you need to do to start developing in Sun WorkShop, including how to start Sun WorkShop, how to select a text editor, and how to use WorkSets.

Chapter 3, Browsing Source Code" shows you how to use the Browsing window, the Call Grapher, the Class Grapher, and the Class Browser to examine source files, function call relationships, and class hierarchies.

Chapter 4, Building Programs in Sun Workshop" shows you how to build an application with Sun WorkShop default settings or your own build settings, and how to fix build errors.

Chapter 5, Debugging a Program" highlights the debugging features offered in Sun WorkShop and describes the basic debugging tasks. It also explains how to debug in Quick Mode, which allows you to run your program normally, but keeps debugging ready in the background to take over the process at any time.

Chapter 6, Analyzing Program Performance" gives an overview of how to gather and examine the various types of data with the Sampling Collector and Sampling Analyzer, and how to use other performance analysis tools to improve the performance of an application.

Chapter 7, Merging Source Files" shows you how to compare different versions of a source file and merge the changes.

Appendix A, Setting Sun WorkShop Resources" shows you how to modify some of the resource settings in Sun WorkShop.

Appendix B, The make Utility and Makefiles" describes the options that you can set for the make utility.

Appendix C, Using the dmake Utility" describes the way DistributedMake (dmake) distributes builds over several hosts to build programs concurrently over a number of workstations or multiple CPUs.

Appendix D, Browsing Source With sbquery, sb_init, and sbtags," describes sbquery, one of the command-line utilities for browsing source code. It also tells you how to work with source files whose database information is stored in multiple directories, and describes the sbtags command, which provides a quick and convenient method for collecting browsing information from source files.

Multiplatform Release

Note -

The name of the latest Solaris operating environment release is Solaris 7 but code and path or package path names may use Solaris 2.7 or SunOS 5.7.

The Sun(TM) WorkShop(TM) documentation applies to Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.6, and Solaris 7 operating environments on:

Related Books

The following Sun manuals and guides provide additional useful information:

Solaris Books

Ordering Sun Documents

The SunDocsSM program provides more than 250 manuals from Sun Microsystems, Inc. If you live in the United States, Canada, Europe, or Japan, you can purchase documentation sets or individual manuals using this program.

For a list of documents and how to order them, see the catalog section of the SunExpress(TM) Internet site at http://www.sun.com/sunexpress.

Accessing Sun Documents Online

Sun WorkShop documentation is available online from several sources:

Using the docs.sun.com Web site

The docs.sun.com Web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the docs.sun.com archive or search for a specific book title or subject. The URL is http://docs.sun.com.

Accessing AnswerBook2 Collections

The Sun WorkShop documentation is also available using AnswerBook2 software. To access the AnswerBook2 collections, your system administrator must have installed the AnswerBook2 documents during the installation process (if the documents are not installed, see your system administrator or Chapter 3 of Sun WorkShop Quick Install for installation instructions). For information about accessing AnswerBook2 documents, see Chapter 6 of Sun WorkShop Quick Install, Solaris installation documentation, or your system administrator.

Note -

To access AnswerBook2 documents, Solaris 2.5.1 users must first download AnswerBook2 documentation server software from a Sun Web page. For more information, see Chapter 6 of Sun WorkShop Quick Install.

Accessing HTML Documents

The following Sun Workshop documents are available online only in HTML format:

To access these HTML documents:

  1. Open the following file through your HTML browser:

    install-directory/SUNWspro/DOC5.0/lib/locale/C/html/index.html

    Replace install-directory with the name of the directory where your Sun WorkShop software is installed (the default is /opt).

    The browser displays an index of the HTML documents for the Sun WorkShop products that are installed.

  2. Open a document in the index by clicking the document's title.

Accessing Sun WorkShop Online Help and Release Notes

This release of WorkShop includes an online help system as well as online manuals. To find out more see:

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol 

Meaning 

Example 

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output 

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% You have mail.

 

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output 

machine_name% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder: 

replace with a real name or value 

To delete a file, type rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized 

Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options.

You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 System Prompts

Shell 

Prompt 

C shell prompt 

machine_name%

C shell superuser prompt 

machine_name#

Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt 

$

Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt 

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