The SkyPat Team

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Introduction

"SkyPat" is a C++ performance analyzing and testing framework on Android and Linux platforms. It combines perf_events and unit tests together and gives programmers the power of fine-grained performance analysis via writing typical test cases.

Directory Structure

share/pat/README    - this document
share/pat/LICENSE   - the License
share/pat/examples/ - the place of examples
include/            - include file, exported interface
lib/                - libraries of exported interface

Supported platforms

SkyPat supports macOS, Ubuntu/x86_64, Ubuntu/arm, Fedora/x86_64, Fedora/arm, and CentOS/x86_64.

Here is a list of verified versions:

• Ubuntu
  • 14.04 and later versions
• Fedora
  • 20 and later versions
• CentOS
  • 7 and later versions

Getting Started

Download and build SkyPat

You could download SkyPat either from the latest release tar-ball or from our git repository.

Method 1: Download SkyPat from the latest release tar-ball

Download the source code from the latest release tar-ball.

$ wget -O pat-2.8.0.tar.gz https://github.com/skymizer/SkyPat/archive/v2.8.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf pat-2.8.0.tar.gz

Method 2: Download SkyPat from our git repository

Download the source code from our git repository into ${PAT_SRC} directory.

$ git clone https://github.com/skymizer/pat.git ${PAT_SRC}

Install required packages

Ubuntu/Debian users

Install following packages before you install SkyPat.

$ sudo apt-get install wget automake autoconf libtool build-essential

Fedora/CentOS users

Install following packages before you install SkyPat.

$ sudo yum install wget automake autoconf libtool make automake gcc gcc-c++
$ sudo yum install kernel-devel 

Build by Auto-tools

If there are no configure shell script in the directory, use ./autogen.sh to generate configure script.

$ ./autogen.sh

Use ./configure to configure the package for your system. See [INSTALL](https://github.com/skymizer/pat/blob/master/INSTALL INSTALL) for more details.

$ ./configure --prefix=${PAT_INSTALL}

Use make to compile the package

$ make

Type make install to install the package into your system.

$ make install

Run Examples

Examples of SkyPat are installed at ${PAT_INSTALL}/share/pat/examples. You can go to any sub-directory and build it. For example:

cd ${PAT_INSTALL}/share/pat/examples/assertion
make

Then, if SkyPat is successfully installed, you should see:

c++ -I../../../../include -L../../../../lib main.cpp my_case.cpp -lpat -o assertion
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../../lib ./assertion
  [    pat   ] Running 2 tests from 1 cases.
  [----------] 2 tests from MyCase.
  [ RUN      ] MyCase.fibonacci_test
  [       OK ]
  [ RUN      ] MyCase.factorial_test
  [       OK ]
  [==========] 2 tests from 1 cases ran.
  [  PASSED  ] 2 tests.

User Guide

For those who need more information about SkyPat, please check out our UserGuide on Github.