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