README

=== Dependencies ===
Needs
  * boost header files (tested with 1.44 and 1.46)
  * libboost_system
  * libboost_filesystem
  * librt


=== Compiling ===
Compiling should be possible with cmake

If this doesn't work, the compiler needs the boost include
  -I/usr/include/boost
and the linker needs the following libs
 * librt
 * boost_system
 * boost_filesystem
I used static linking so it would run on the grid without too much problems


== Setting the options ==

The program uses default options if you do not supply an options file (which probably won't work for you unless you have the directory structure that I use)
Options are read from a file called "options" in the current working directory.
There is one with suggested options and comments about the options in the directory "implementation/src/cppmodule".

Change the paths contained in this file to point to the respective files on your computer.
The translate-relaxed.py script contained in the Fast Downward repository didn't work when I got it so I had to make some small changes to it.
The modified script is in the directory "implementation/src/translate" and you should change the path in the options file to the path of that file.
If you run the program from the directory "implementation/src/cppmodule" in the checked out repository, the relative path that is already in the options file should work.


== Running ==

Run with
  ./build/hplusbnb <path to task file> <task to domain file> [<path to output file>]

Delete relaxations (i.e. SAS+ translations) are searched in <cache directory>/<domain name without .pddl extension>/<task name without .pddl extension>.
If they are not found there, they are created with the translate-relaxed.py script and saved there.
I always used the same translation from the cache for all experiments to get reproducable results (I created them by one run, of the program where only the preprocessing was done).