Program's description:
FET means "Free Evolutionary Timetabling (software)".
This program aims to automatically generate the timetable of a university,
school or high-school, in an evolutionary manner.
- Requirements
FET is created in the following environment: Slackware 10.0 GNU/Linux distribution, KDevelop 3.2.1, Midnight Commander 4.6.1-pre1, Qt 4.1.2, gcc 3.3.6, Linux 2.4.26, other great free tools.
GNU/Linux and similar OS's:
Software: gcc 3.3.4 or similar, Qt 4.1.2 or compatible.
Mac OS X:
Mac OS X 10.4.x or compatible.
Apple's developer tools installed.
Qt 4.1.2 or compatible (Qt 4.1.0 works all right).
Microsoft Windows:
For running, you need only the archive of FET compiled for Windows (which contains
the MinGW and Qt dlls).
- Download
You can download the latest version from http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/ (for now). Older versions: you will have to contact the author if you are interested.
Getting - compiling - installing Qt:
You will need Qt 4.1.2 or compatible to compile FET. You can get your
corresponding version of Qt from http://www.trolltech.com . Please get
the opensource version of Qt, which is available for now on
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/x11 .
For GNU/Linux - there are instructions in the Qt package on how to install-compile it.
Basically, type ./configure, make, make install. Then, add or create .profile
in your home directory, adding or creating the following lines:
PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.x/bin:$PATH
export PATH
where x is your corresponding number of the version.
For Windows - Download latest OpenSource Qt for MinGW from
http://www.trolltech.com (for now, the page is
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/windows )
Install and let Qt download and install MinGW.
Please make sure, after installing Qt and MinGW, that you have
an environment variable named "QTDIR" which is C:\Qt\4.1.x"
and you have in the PATH environmental variable the contents
QTDIR and C:\MinGW\bin.
For Mac OS X:
- Unverified - you can get the latest version of Qt from trolltech.com and
compile it on your operating system.
- Verified: You can download a binary installer of Qt 4.1.0
(compatible with Qt 4.1.2) from: http://naranja.umh.es/~atg/software-qt4.html
Set the required environment variables for your shell. For tcsh,
add the following lines to the end of your ~/.tcshrc file:
setenv QTDIR /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.0
setenv PATH $QTDIR/bin:$PATH
setenv MANPATH $QTDIR/doc/man
setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH $QTDIR/lib
Compiling FET:
First of all, currently FET can be compiled using just Qt 4.1.2 or compatible.
But the majority of interface files are Qt 3.3 forms and to modify them
you will need Qt 3.3, which unfortunately has no free Windows version.
GNU/Linux and similar OS's:
- You will need Qt 4.1.2 or compatible to compile this program.
- type "qmake fet.pro".
- type "make"
To remove the compiled objects/executable: "make clean" and/or "make distclean".
Mac OS X:
- You will need Qt 4.1.2 or compatible to compile this program.
- type "qmake fet.pro".
- type "make"
To remove the compiled objects/executable: "make clean" and/or "make distclean".
Microsoft Windows: you will have to download and install Qt from trolltech.com (see above).
Please modify the file src/engine/genetictimetable_defs.h -> line 21 becomes
"#define WIN32" (this might be not necessary). The rest is automatic.
You need to run "qmake" and then "make" in a command line in the FET directory.
You will need to move the file fet.exe from the directory "fet-x.x.x\src\" to the "fet-x.x.x\"
directory (this is a small Qt bug). Then, you can remove directories "src" and "tmp",
to save up space.
If you want to obtain a version which can be run on other computers,
you have to copy 7 files into the FET directory:
C:\MinGW\bin\mingwm10.dll, C:\Qt\4.1.x\bin\Qt3Support4.dll,
C:\Qt\4.1.x\bin\QtCore4.dll, C:\Qt\4.1.x\bin\QtGui4.dll,
C:\Qt\4.1.x\bin\QtNetwork4.dll, C:\Qt\4.1.x\bin\QtSQl4.dll,
C:\Qt\4.1.x\bin\QtXml4.dll.
E-mail author or the mailing list for more details.
Installing FET:
GNU/Linux and similar OS's:
Please move the whole directory "fet-x.x.x" into the place where you like,
for instance to the directory "/usr/local/".
Microsoft Windows:
Move the FET directory in a place of your choice.
Running FET:
GNU/Linux and similar OS's:
Run the executable named "/.../fet-x.x.x/fet" (x.x.x is the version).
You can change various parameters in the file "~/.fet/fet.ini" (home
directory, in .fet/fet.ini)
(yes, please play with them, try greater population size, etc.)
Microsoft Windows:
Run the executable fet.exe. You can modify the file fet.ini.
- Documentation
Very primitive: some hints in the directory "/.../fet-x.x.x/doc/". If you are a programmer and would like to know how the program works, you can use "doxygen" to generate API documentation.
Input files:
You can open a few sample input files in "/.../fet-x.x.x/sample_inputs/" directory.
You can create/modify a file from FET's user interface or you can modify it by
hand, if you like (there should be no problems, but please make as many backups
as you can).
Feed-back / help:
- I would like to hear your oppinions/results about this program; any feed-back would be greatly appreciated.
- Reporting bugs/wishes/patches: for now, to the author.
This project is free software, so any sponsoring offer/donation would be great. You can
contact the author for that.