McIDAS Programmer's Manual

[Search Manual] [Index] [Table of Contents] [Go to Previous] [Go to Next]

Chapter 3

This chapter provides the information you need to develop applications programs under McIDAS-X. You'll learn how to:

• set up your user account, including directories and libraries
• compile and link your McIDAS-X code
• make program helps and help files

This chapter is organized into these sections:

• Setting up a user account
  
  Creating your user account
  Directories
  Libraries
• Compiling and linking your code
  
  Compiling source files
  Linking object files
  Storing object files in a library
  Building Dynamic Link Libraries
• Making program helps