Masound,

The tarball comes with a pre-compiled Jar of ECJ, in the "jar" directory. So compiling it fresh is optional.

I'm not near a Windows machine, but ecj.sh and ecj.command both work fine on my MacBook. On Mac/Linux, you'll need to set the +x flag first on the permissions for the file.

The ECJ gui is quite limited, though. ECJ is primarily a Java library and a command-line tool. The tutorials in src/docs/tutorials assume that you already have your Java development environment set up so you can write your custom objective function in Java, and that you know how to use Java libraries and launch Java programs from the command line.

I'd recommend installing Netbeans and going through Tutorial 1.

Cheers,

Siggy

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Masoud Zarifneshat <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi,

I am in the process of using ECJ tool. I want to run it but am not sure how to do it. I have seen the files, there is a folder called start. The instructions say it should run by using ecj.bat in windows or ecj.sh in linux. I tried both and nothing happened. Should I compile it first? If so, what software should I choose? I tried to find any JAVA compilers but did not succeed. I prefer running in on windows.
Any advice is so appreciated!

Thanks.

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