Windows Local Installation Instructions

VM Labs SDK Internal Release 0.86.2
June 14
, 2001


Use the following instructions to download and install the latest release of the SDK on your PC.

Mandatory Procedure

Note that you may install the SDK into any folder on any of your hard drives – you are not required to install it on the C:\ drive or into a \VMLabs\ folder. If you do install into another drive and/or folder, substitute that path to that drive/folder for C:\ or C:\VMLabs\ in the following instructions.

  1. If you have a prior release of the SDK on your machine in the C:\VMLabs folder, delete that folder or rename it to C:\VMLabs.old.
  2. Fetch sdk-win.zip from \\mammoth\NUON\SDK\install.
  3. Create the directory C:\VMLabs. Unzip the contents of the file into this directory.
  4. Setup your VMLABS environment by editing your autoexec.bat to include the following lines:
    set VMLABS=C:\VMLABS

    set PATH=%VMLABS%\bin\windows;%PATH%

    You can also set these environment variables on Windows NT/2000 systems by executing Start->Settings->Control Panel, double click on System, select the Advanced tab, click on the Environment Variables button, and finally add/edit the desired environment variables.

  5. If you do not have the ROOTDIR environment variable set, update your environment to include the following:

    set ROOTDIR=C:

  6. If you have any lines in autoexec.bat referencing a different SDK location, remove those lines, edit them so they longer contain the SDK references, or REM them out at this time. On the Windows NT/2000 system, you may need to update the Environment Variables window as well.
  7. (not required but highly recommended) Change any absolute references to C:\VMLABS to refer to the VMLABS environment variable. This will help avoid problems if the SDK installation location should change in the future.
  8. Restart your system.

You are now ready to use the VM Labs SDK.

Optional Procedure

The following actions are highly recommended, but are not required to use the SDK on Windows based systems.

Execute these steps to create a home for any local SDK components that you may update. This is a highly recommended practice that will help ensure SDK consistency among the engineering team.

  1. Create a C:\VMLabs-Local folder.
  2. Edit your autoexec.bat file to include the following lines:
    set VMLABS_LOCAL=C:\VMLabs-Local
    set PATH=%VMLABS_LOCAL%\bin\windows;%PATH%

Starting with the 0.82 release, the VM Labs makefiles reference the VMLABS_LOCAL variable support installation of components into a local "shadow" SDK in order to prevent smashing of the installed SDK.

You may define a different directory name or drive for this folder. If you do, substitute the path to that drive/directory for C:\ or C:\VMLabs-Local in the preceding instructions.


Please email comments or questions to SDK-Release@vmlabs.com

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