ADT now builds with Qt by default. To build the legacy Motif/X11 version, invoke MOTIF=1 make.

After building, the binary is placed in bin/<OS>-<ARCH>/adt. It accepts several options to control startup behaviour:

adt [-a directory] [-f pvfile] [-s center_sector] [-z number_of_sectors] [-d] 

• -a <directory> specify the ADT home directory
• -f <pvfile> open a PV file at startup
• -s <center_sector> set the initial zoomed-on sector
• -z <number_of_sectors> set the initial zoom range
• -d enable diff mode
• -h display usage information

Example:

make ./bin/Linux-x86_64/adt -f pv/sr.bpm.pv 

This compiles the Qt version and starts ADT with the sample PV file.

ADT looks for a configuration file named adtrc to locate PV and snapshot directories and populate the File/Load menu. The file is searched for in the following locations, in order:

1. the directory specified with -a <adthome>
2. $HOME/.adtrc
3. $ADTHOME/adtrc
4. the current working directory

If no configuration file is found, ADT defaults to using ./pv and ./snap and shows only the Custom option in the File/Load menu. An example configuration file is provided at src/adtrc.