Installation
Using Renew requires a Java 11 (or higher) runtime environment (JRE) or development kit (JDK). You can get it from Oracle or from AdoptOpenJDK. For the installation of Java we refer you to the instructions there.
Quick start
The quickest way to using Renew is to download the base package
renew2.6prvbase.zip, unzip it and move to the resulting
directory renew2.6prv. Here, you just have to issue the
following command line:
java -jar loader.jar gui
Install the base package
After you downloaded the base package renew2.6prvbase.zip you will
first need to unzip it somewhere on your machine.
A directory renew2.6prv will be created in the current directory.
Documentation files are placed in the subdirectory renew2.6prv/doc.
The subdirectory renew2.6prv/samples contains example nets.
The functionality of Renew has been decomposed into several
plugins which reside as jar files in the subdirectory
renew2.6prv/plugins. This is also the place where
you can add extra plugins.
The base package contains install scripts for Unix, Win and Mac systems. These are located under renew2.6prv/bin/YOUR_OS depending on your operating system. They generate a start script for Renew which sets the classpath and the netpath (see the user guide for more on this).
- Download the base package renew2.6prvbase.zip
- Unzip it, navigate to the created renew2.6prv folder
- Navigate to renew2.6prv/bin/YOUR_OS/ and run the install script installrenew for your operating system
- To start renew now run the script renew2.6prv/bin/YOUR_OS/renew
Mac Package
The disk image (DMG) offers several advantages over the zip archive. The AppleUI Plugin is already installed and the Application will automatically register Renew file types for convenient handling, adapted icons and more. If you want to use the provided scripts (i.e. to make and compile stubs) you can still run the installrenew script, which is located in the folder Reference Net Workshop/Contents/Java/bin/unix. Just follow the instructions above.
Click start
If you prefer to run Renew by clicking on an executable this is also
possible. Just add the following line to the file renew.properties in
the config folder (or in your home directory in .renew.properties) and
double-click on the loader.jar:
de.renew.gui.autostart=true
Install the Source package
Building Renew from source requires a Java compiler (javac, part of the JDK) and additional libraries which are not included in the distribution.
- the Apache Ant build tool,
- the unit testing package JUnit (optional),
- the parser generator JavaCC,
- the rest reporting package Cobertura (optional)
- Eclipse is used as code formatter (optional)
The build process is specified in the file build.xml and managed by ant. You will first need to tell ant where the required libraries are located. In the source folder run ant init. This generates the configuration file ant/local.properties which you need to adapt to your needs. Set the properties dir.javacc and dir.cobertura to point to the locations, where you installed them.
After configuring your local properties you can run ant dist in the source folder. If the build is successful this will generate the folders dist and dist/plugins. The loader.jar is located in the dist folder, plugins contains the plugins in jar format.
Now you can start Renew like described in the quick start section.
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Last modified: Friday, 5 February 2021 at 19:52 UTC by webmaster@renew.de