Versions of Tools Needed
See Tested/Verified Tool Versions.
Daffodil development uses quite a few tools. To avoid the pages of this wiki becoming obsolete every time a tool-version changes, we centralize the Tested/Verified Tool Versions so that there's only one place that contains the actual version numbers. All the other pages should avoid specifying versions of anything.
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For MS-Windows users: Setup Microsoft Windows for Unicode, as full Unicode support is required for using Daffodil.
For MS-Windows users: Install Cygwin - a unix/linux compatibility layer for MS-Windows. (Some of our test system requires it due to scripting.
)- Install Java Software Development Kit aka SDK or JDK. (Note: Not only the Java Runtime Environment or JRE, you need the full JDK)
If you are running Linux, you can choose to use the OpenJDK. Follow the instructions here: http://openjdk.java.net/install/
On either Linux or MS-Windows, you can choose to use the Oracle JDK. The Java Install instructions from Oracle will tell you how to install the JDK for your platform.
- Install SBT
Note: you need sbt even if you intend to do development from an IDE like Eclipse. There are things built using sbt that are necessary for the IDE environment.
You can find SBT installation instructions here: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/docs/index.html
- Install Git
- Instructions here: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
- MS Windows Users - you must turn off the "autocrlf" feature. The default that the Windows installer uses WILL NOT WORK.
- The git config file (c:\ProgramData\Git\config) should have "autocrlf = input"
- Set Environment Variables
- Obtain Daffodil Source - See Getting Daffodil
- Execute a Preliminary Build to Retrieve Libraries
- Build Daffodil
- Run Daffodil you just Compiled from the Command Line
- Development Workflow
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