= Installation Guide =

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Note that starting from the upcoming release 1.3, the autotool based build environment will be deprecated.

If you use the latest development version, we already suggest using [wiki:InstallCmake CMAKE] on all platforms.
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== Build and Install from Source ==

In fact, LEMON provides two different build environments, one is based on
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_build_system autotool] while the other is based on
[http://cmake.org cmake].
Your choice will mainly depend on the operation system you use.

 - Choose '''autotool''' on Linux, Mac OSX and other Unices. It is also your choice if you use [http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin] on Windows.
   - [InstallAutotool Installation Guide for Autotool]
   - [InstallLinux Linux installation Guide for CMAKE]

 - Choose '''cmake''' on Windows, though it also works with Linux.
   - [InstallCmake Installation Guide for CMake]

 - You can also use the template build environment created for LEMON based projects.
   - [ProjectTemplate Guide for the LEMON Project Template]

More precisely, 
 - On '''Linux''', '''Solaris''', '''Mac OSX''' and other Unices
   - '''autotool''' is recommended, but '''cmake''' is also supported
 - On '''Windows'''
   - with '''Visual Studio 2005/2008'''
     - use '''cmake''' which can generate
       - solution and project files for the IDE or
       - NMake makefile
   - with '''Cygwin'''
     - '''autotool''' is recommended but '''cmake''' is also supported
   - with '''MinGW'''
     - use '''cmake'''


== Binary Releases ==

 - Packages for openSUSE 10.2/10.3/11.x can be found in the science repository of the openSUSE Build Service:[[BR]]
   [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/]