Electric VLSI Design System User's Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction

1-4: Building Electric from Source Code
1-4-3: Command-line Access to the savannah.gnu.org Repository

Before attempting to build Electric from the savannah.gnu.org, you must have these tools installed on your computer:

JDK 1.6 or later (a JRE is sufficient for running Electric, but a JDK is necessary to build it).
Subversion. This is the source-code control system.
Apache Ant 1.8.0 or later.

The following variable should be defined:
JAVA_PATH path to JDK root directory

Next, download the latest sources using Subversion. The first time you do this, issue these commands:
   cd WORK-DIR
   svn checkout svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/electric
   cd electric
Once the code has been downloaded, it can be updated with these commands:
   cd WORK-DIR/electric
   svn update

Next, compile the sources (it takes longer the first time, but works incrementally after that):
cd WORK-DIR/electric/packaging
ant

Next run Electric (note that the "X.XX" should be replaced with the current version, for example "9.01"):
   WORK-DIR/electric/packaging/electricPublic-X.XX.jar
or:
   java -jar WORK-DIR/electric/packaging/electricPublic-X.XX.jar
or:
   java -classpath WORK-DIR/electric/packaging/electricPublic-X.XX.jar com.sun.electric.Launcher

If your design is large and you need more memory, you can request a larger heap size with this command:
java -classpath WORK-DIR/electric/packaging/electricPublic-X.XX.jar com.sun.electric.Launcher -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

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