| | 1 | = Installing Cobra = |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | Installation is from one of (the latest) downloadable packages from the [http://cobra-language.com/downloads/ downloads] page. |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | On all platforms the installation tool will install a pristine copy of the compiler on your system and setup associated libraries |
| | 6 | as required for the platform.[[BR]] |
| | 7 | As it executes it will ask you for info it needs (where you would like the compiler installed to) and emit a sequence of status lines informing you of what it is doing and any problems it finds as it does so. |
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| | 9 | |
| | 10 | == On Windows == |
| | 11 | |
| | 12 | Requires .Net (any version from 2.0) |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | The distribution package is a zip file ( e.g Cobra-0.9.1.zip) |
| | 15 | |
| | 16 | * Download it and unpack to a convenient temporary directory |
| | 17 | - This will create a directory named for the cobra version ( e.g Cobra-0.9.1) containing the distribution files |
| | 18 | * Launch a command prompt as an administrator and navigate to the directory you unzipped the package to |
| | 19 | * Change directory to the Source directory within the unzipped directory tree and run the installation command. |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | {{{ |
| | 22 | cd <Cobra-version>\Source |
| | 23 | bin\install-from-workspace |
| | 24 | }}} |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | e.g for cobra version 0.9.1 |
| | 27 | {{{ |
| | 28 | cd Cobra-0.9.1\Source |
| | 29 | bin\install-from-workspace |
| | 30 | }}} |
| | 31 | |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | == On Mac or !Linux/Unix == |
| | 34 | Requires Novell Mono ( any version from 2.6) |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | The distribution is a gzipped tar file ( e.g cobra-0.9.0.tar.gz) |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | * Download it and unpack to a convenient temporary directory |
| | 39 | - This will create a directory named for the cobra version (e.g Cobra-0.9.0) containing the distribution files |
| | 40 | * Launch a command prompt as an administrator and navigate to the directory you unzipped the package to |
| | 41 | * Change directory to the Source directory within the unzipped directory tree and run the installation command. |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | {{{ |
| | 44 | cd <Cobra-version>/Source |
| | 45 | sudo bin/install-from-workspace |
| | 46 | }}} |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | e.g for cobra version 0.9.0 |
| | 49 | {{{ |
| | 50 | cd Cobra-0.9.0/Source |
| | 51 | sudo bin/install-from-workspace |
| | 52 | }}} |
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