Windows installation
We bundled all the tools (compiler, libraries, fonts, custom scripts) that Tscope5 relies on into a single installer package called Mingw4Tscope5.
Tscope5 itself is not part of MinGW4Tscope5, as it is updated more frequently. After the installation of MinGW4Tscope5, you will still need to install Tscope5 as described in the next section.
Mingw4Tscope5 installation
- Download the installer here. It is about 150 megabytes.
- Execute the installer. You will need administrative rights to run the installer. A power user account is not enough. If you don't have administrative rights, the installer will tell you and abort.
- There are not many installation options. Mingw4Tscope5 will not install in the standard Program Files directory because of the space in that directory's name. It will be installed in C:\Mingw4Tscope5 instead. (Actually, Mingw4Tscope5 will be installed on the same drive as your Windows system - so if Windows is installed on the D: drive, Mingw4Tscope5 will be installed in D:\Mingw4Tscope5, etc. All further information on this site assumes Mingw4Tscope5 is installed in C:\Mingw4Tscope5, but please note that on your system this also might be D:\Mingw4Tscope5 or any other drive).
- If everything is ok, the installer will extract all the necessary files. This can take a while - the fully extracted system takes about 500 megabytes of disk space.
After installation an icon called 'MinGW4Tscope5 will be added to your desktop. Double clicking this icon will open a bash shell where you can enter your compilation commands.
Tscope5 installation
- For Windows we provide an automatic installer that can be downloaded here.
- Execute the installer in the same way as the MinGW4Tscope5 installer. Again there are no installation options.
After installation you are ready to start developing Tscope5 programs.
Please not that the distribution currently does not contain a source code editor. You will have to download and install one yourself. For Windows we recommend notepad++. In the future we might provide a plug-in that allows you to compile and run programs from notepad++, but for now you will need to use the shell commands described in the compilation manual .
Mac OS X installation
To be done