Getting Started at Construct

Installing Construct

There are 5 steps required to get Construct up and running on your computer:

Ensure that you have Apple’s Bonjour [windows | *nix] and Java 1.5+ installed.
Download the latest version of Construct from this website.
Change the hostname property at the end of the construct.properties file (in the root directory) to reflect your IP address or hostname.
Ensure the java.library.path system variable points to the location of the bonjour library on your system:
1. On Windows, this can be achieved by following the directions in construct.bat. The default value of C:/Windows/System32 is usually correct.
2. *nix users should point the first LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to the location of libjdns_sd.so In the launch file provided, it is located in ~/mDNSResponder-107.6/mDNSPosix/build/prod/.
3. OS X 10.4+ users should not need to do anything.
Run Construct:
1. On Windows, use construct.bat or constructNoGUI.bat to start the program.
2. On *nix, construct.sh or constructNoGUI.sh should be used.

If you wish to run the software manually, the main method for Construct is located in the ProxyAndConstructGUIMain class, which can be found in the ie.ucd.srg.construct.main package. Also included in this package are several other files that can be used to launch Construct with varying functionality:

ConstructGuiMain - Launches the GUI version of Construct
ConstructNoGuiMain - Launches the GUIless version of Construct
ProxyMain - Launches the Proxy needed by sensors and applications to find instances of Construct running on the network
ProxyAndConstructMain - Launches both the Proxy and the GUI version of Construct
ProxyAndConstructNoGUIMain - Launches both the Proxy and GUIless version of Construct

The launch scripts may be copied and edited to point to one of these alternatives if desired.

Once you have Construct up and running, we recommend following the basic tutorials.

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