Kappa - The Kappa language for Systems Biology

Basic information

Compiling kappa creates two biraries, simplx and complx. simplx is for simulation, complx is for static analysis.

What you need to compile Kappa

• OCaml 3.09.2 [http://caml.inria.fr/download.en.html](OCaml download page)
• TK/lablTK (for the graphical interface)
• graphviz http://www.graphviz.org/

On Windows

You will also need Cygwin for make and gcc, FlexDll for linking, and ActiveTcl for the graphical interface.

http://www.cygwin.com/

• make sure you install gcc v. 3. You may need to rename c:/cygwin/bin/gcc-3.exe to c:/cygwin/bin/gcc.exe

http://alain.frisch.fr/flexdll.html

http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads

• make sure to install version 8.4

How to compile Kappa

In the main directory of the distribution (the one that this file is in), type the following to make all versions of jQuery:

To compile the light version, which does not include the graphical interface (LablTK not required):

make

Or to include the graphical interface:

make full

Binaries are created in /bin. To copy them into /usr/bin:

make install

If you do not have local root privileges, you may use the following: make LOCAL_DIR="/home/bin" install_in_local