APPENDIX A

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Development Environment

I developed the Solver and the Generator on a Macintosh, but from the very start I wanted to be certain that they were portable to Windows-based PCs. That is why I chose Eclipse as an Integrated Development Environment rather than Apple’s Xcode. This appendix will show you how to set up and run the Solver and Generator.

Eclipse

This section is not a user’s guide for Eclipse, as you can find extensive documentation on the web, but setting it up on a PC running Windows is not entirely straightforward, and I would like to spare you at least some of the pain I had to go through!

To install Eclipse, you only need ...

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