Installation and Setup (9.2)

Owned by Jenni Wallin
Last updated: Dec 28, 2023
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In the instruction below, you will prepare the development environment setup for your Desktop.

  1. Download the devkit package to the PC where you will use a Desktop and do the DTK work by opening the Downloads dialog from the User Settings menu in Desktop Online, see User Settings (4.0), and clicking on the devkit_<version>.zip file.

  2. Create an installation directory for the Devkit.
    $ mkdir <devkit dir>

  3. Extract the devkit package to your installation directory <devkit dir>
    $ unzip devkit_<version>.zip

  4. Setting Up the Environment Variables for the DTK.
    In your development environment or build scripts you must include the devkit.jar in the class path. that was extracted above, in devkit_<version>/lib) in the class path.

    For example

    $ javac -cp <devkit dir>/lib/devkit.jar -sourcepath . com/mycompany/myplugin/*.java Where: com/mycompany/myplugin/, is your the code that you will build