= Installing Cobra =

Installation is from one of (the latest) downloadable packages from the [http://cobra-language.com/downloads/ downloads] page.

On all platforms the installation tool will install a pristine copy of the compiler on your system and setup associated libraries
as required for the platform.[[BR]]
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.


== On Windows ==

Requires .Net (any version from 2.0)

The distribution package is a zip file ( e.g Cobra-0.9.1.zip)

  * Download it and unpack to a convenient temporary directory 
     - This will create a directory named for the cobra version ( e.g Cobra-0.9.1) containing the distribution files
  * Launch a command prompt as an administrator and navigate to the directory you unzipped the package to
  * Change directory to the Source directory within the unzipped directory tree and run the installation command.
 
{{{
cd <Cobra-version>\Source
bin\install-from-workspace
}}}

e.g for cobra version 0.9.1 
{{{
cd Cobra-0.9.1\Source
bin\install-from-workspace
}}}


== On Mac or !Linux/Unix ==
Requires Novell Mono ( any version from 2.6) 

The distribution is a gzipped tar file ( e.g cobra-0.9.0.tar.gz)

  * Download it and unpack to a convenient temporary directory 
     - This will create a directory named for the cobra version (e.g Cobra-0.9.0) containing the distribution files
  * Launch a command prompt as an administrator and navigate to the directory you unzipped the package to
  * Change directory to the Source directory within the unzipped directory tree and run the installation command.
 
{{{
cd <Cobra-version>/Source
sudo bin/install-from-workspace
}}}

e.g for cobra version 0.9.0 
{{{
cd Cobra-0.9.0/Source
sudo bin/install-from-workspace
}}}

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