Installing Ptolemy II

Installers for various platforms

• Download a snapshot using installers

Clone and build the source code

This method is preferred because then you can update to the latest version at any time. Install Java 1.8 or newer, install git and then run:

git clone --depth=50 --branch=master --single-branch https://github.com/icyphy/ptII
cd ptII
export PTII=`pwd`
./configure
$PTII/bin/ant
$PTII/bin/vergil

The last line starts vergil, the Ptolemy II GUI. You may want to export the PTII environment variable in bash profile (or profile for whatever shell you use) and include $PTII/bin in your PATH variable. To update to the current version in the repository after installing as above:

cd $PTII
./configure
$PTII/bin/ant

Resources and documentation

• Book on Ptolemy II (free download)
• Github source repository
• Ptolemy II project main page
• Javadoc documentation for Ptolemy II Java classes
• JsDoc documentation for JavaScript components
• Contributing
  • Ptolemy II Style Guide
• Nightly build (using Travis)
  • PtII specific Travis Notes
  • JUnit test output
  • Complete test reports
  • Historical JUnit test summaries

See also

• Using Eclipse to develop Ptolemy II, $PTII/doc/eclipse/index.htm
• Using Ant to build Ptolemy II

The above two instructions are in the Ptolemy II tree, pulled from the repository via RawGit. For example, the Eclipse instructions are in the tree at $PTII/doc/eclipse/index.htm translate to URL https://cdn.rawgit.com/icyphy/ptII/master/doc/eclipse/index.htm.

Windows users, Eclipse is the preferred installation method. If you want to build with Cygwin, see:

• Cygwin Instructions

See Also

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