2.4 Test Node and Tree

It is now time to test what we have done thus far.

Compiling and running strom

To build your program, type the following commands at the linux prompt (the first line is of course not necessary if you are already in the ~/Documents/strom/build folder). You do not need to issue the meson ./build command any more: meson is all set up and running meson install is all that is needed to build strom and copy the executable to the distr directory.

cd ~/Documents/strom/build
meson install

You should now find an executable file named strom inside the directory ~/Documents/strom/distr. To run the program, type:

cd ~/Documents/strom/distr
./strom

Output

The expected output of the program thus far is shown below:

Starting...
Constructing a Tree

Finished!
Destroying a Tree

The Starting... and Finished! lines are created by the main function, while the other strings are output in the Tree constructor and destructor. Note that there is no output from the Node constructor or destructor. That is because, so far, no Node objects have been created: we have created a Tree with no nodes, not even a root node!