Installing Cobra

Installation is from one of (the latest) downloadable packages from the  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.
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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