The source is available as a tar file and comes complete with the GNU General Public License.
-To build the application you will need a J2SDK 1.5+.
+To build the application you will need a J2SDK 1.7+.
An Ant build file (build.xml) is provided, you will need to install Apache Ant first.
Run ant to view usage which will display a list of useful build targets.
+Jalview is primarily developed with eclipse, and a .project file is provided to simplify importing the source into your own eclipse workspace. A NetBeans nbbuild.xml file is also provided for developing Jalview with NetBeans - but this is not officially supported.
+
You may also be able to use Borland JBuilder to build Jalview. A JBuilder project file
(JalviewX.jpx, JalviewApplet.jpx) for both application and applet is provided,
but the library dependencies are almost certainly out of date. See the build.xml
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-To run application:
+To run application...
+[ NOTE: when using the -classpath option with the '*' wildcard, the argument must be quoted to avoid shell expansion of the wildcard,
+ ALSO, the wildcard MUST be as DIR/* and not DIR/*.jar etc or it will not be interpreted correctly ]
+
+on Windows use:
+ java -classpath "JALVIEW_HOME/lib/*;JALVIEW_HOME/jalview.jar" jalview.bin.Jalview
+and on MacOS or Linux:
+ java -classpath "JALVIEW_HOME/lib/*:JALVIEW_HOME/jalview.jar" jalview.bin.Jalview
+
+Replace JALVIEW_HOME with the full path to Jalview Installation Directory. If building from source:
-java -Djava.ext.dirs=JALVIEW_HOME/lib -cp JALVIEW_HOME/jalview.jar jalview.bin.Jalview
+ java -classpath "JALVIEW_BUILD/dist/*" jalview.bin.Jalview
-Replace JALVIEW_HOME with the full path to Jalview Installation Directory.
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