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+# SAT -  SALOME Builder Tool
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+SAT is a tool developed in the Python language that aims to provide a universal and unified approach for the preparation, compilation and packaging of the different components of the SALOME platform.
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+SAT currently supports the following platforms:
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+- CentOS: 7, 8
+- Rocky: 8, 9
+- Fedora: 32, 34, 36, 38
+- Debian: 9, 10, 11, 12
+- Ubuntu: 20.04, 22.04
+- Windows 10
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+To build a SALOME archive using the SAT tool, proceed as follows:
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+- first, the sources of the various products used for the build are retrieved and any platform-specific patches are applied.
+- The various products are then constructed. The build order of the various products is managed by SAT, based on the construction of a dependency graph associated with the application.
+- once a product has been compiled, if this later is a prerequisite for another product, the associated runtime environment is automatically set.
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