Building Jalview from Source

You will need the following:

Obtain: git
Build/run: Java Development Kit (JDK). JDK11 is now the recommended platform for developing with Jalview. You can obtain a pre-compiled JDK11 for many platforms from https://adoptopenjdk.net/
Build: Gradle 5.1 or later. On linux you can obtain this with your package manager (e.g. sudo yum install gradle or sudo apt install gradle or on macOS with brew with brew install gradle

With any luck, once you check out the Jalview source from git and set your JAVA_HOME and PATH correctly, you just need to change to the jalview directory and run gradle getdown.

Obtaining Jalview

This is easiest achieved with git:

git clone http://www.jalview.org/git/jalview.git

Then you can cd jalview to get into the top level jalview dir.

Minimal Jalview build

To run Jalview, you just need the jalview classes and the .jar libraries that Jalview depends on.

Jalview development team