CACAO Installation Page

Depending on the operatig system download the cacao binary for Digital Unix or Linux, decompress it with gzip and rename it to cacao. The current version is 0.2 beta which has the new much faster JIT compiler and now supports multithreading. A final 0.2 version with support for LINUX will come very soon.

If you don't have installed a JDK 1.0.2 (OSF port for DU 3.2) compatible library, also download the file classes.zip.gz, decompress it and unzip it as CACAO currently does not support class files in zip format. If you download the class, read the licence requirements from SUN for the library. Documentation is distributed as HTML-documents in a tar archive.

After the installation set the environment variable CLASSPATH to the directories where your class libraries are stored. E. g. if you unzipped classes.zip in the directory /usr/local/lib/java/classes set the envrironment variable to /usr/local/lib/java/classes. For starting CACAO see the CACAO manual page.

CACAO is a research prototype under development. The current version does not support the AWT library. Please send bug reports to cacao@complang.tuwien.ac.at. If you want to participate in the development of CACAO or have urgent questions send mail to andi@complang.tuwien.ac.at.

Last updated by Andreas Krall on September 11th 1998. Please send mail to cacao@complang.tuwien.ac.at for errors and changes.