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Before you install iQgen please take some time and verify that your system meets the system requirements laid out in the next section. Then you should decide which distribution format best fits your needs. iQgen comes in three different flavors:
as a ZIP archive, extractable with WinZip™ and other, similar tools
as a GZIP-compressed tar archive (for Unix™ or Cygwin™ users)
as a self-extracting installation program for Windows operating systems
The Windows installer is the easiest way to get iQgen up and running if you are on a Windows platform. If you plan to use iQgen on both Windows and Unix boxes, you may want to use the same .zip or .tar.gz archive for both installations.
Like any other tool iQgen requires a certain execution environment. The following sections list these requirements.
You can install iQgen on any machine capable of running a Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.3 or higher. iQgen has been successfully tested on the following platforms:
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows XP
SuSE Linux 7.1, 8.0, 9.0
Apple Mac OS X (10.1.2 or higher)
Before you install iQgen, you should have a working Java Development Kit (JDK) installation on your system.
Note that the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is not sufficient, because iQgen needs to compile Java source code it generates, even if you do not use Java as your programming language.
You can get the JDK from Sun's web site at http://www.java.com/.