Installation

The simulator program, Quantum, is relatively easy to install. It comes with no installation program, though I foresee no difficulties for users in installing and running the application.

There are two versions of the Quantum program. The first version is the release version. The release version is the one that should be used most of the time. It has been compiled with full compiler optimisation and minimal self-tests in order to ensure the maximum execution speed. The debug version has a large amount of self-testing built in. In order to ensure that a program failure reports the maximum amount of information to the user, Automated Tests only work under the debug version of the program.

The Quantum requires the following DLLs to be located in the Windows System directory (Windows 95) or the System32 directory (Windows NT); MFC40.DLL, MSVCRT.DLL, MSVCRT40.DLL. The debug version Quantum requires the following DLLs; MFC40D.DLL, MSVCR40D.DLL. The release DLLs are usually distributed with Windows 95 and Windows NT. All versions of the DLLs are supplied with Microsoft Visual C++ 4.

Quantum is designed to use the features of the Haskell interpreter HUGS. This is widely available from over the Internet. Upon executing Quantum it is necessary to enter the path to the HUGS executable, libraries and a temporary directory for writing files.

The Quantum application itself can be located anywhere.