12. Installation

12.1. Availability

Information about the open source version of DEVSIM is available from https://devsim.org. This site contains up-to-date information about where to obtain compiled and source code versions of this software. It also contains information about how to get support and participate in the development of this project.

12.2. Supported platforms

DEVSIM is compiled and tested on the platforms in Table 12.1. If you require a version on a different software platform, please contact us.

Table 12.1 Current platforms for `DEVSIM`.
Platform	Bits	OS Version
`Microsoft Windows`	64	`Microsoft Windows 10`
`Linux`	64	`Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7` (`Centos 7` compatible)
`Apple macOS`	64	`macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)`

12.3. Binary availability

Compiled packages for the the platforms in Table 12.1 are currently available from https://github.com/devsim/devsim/releases. The prerequisites on each platform are described in the linux.txt, macos.txt, and windows.txt.

12.4. Source code availability

DEVSIM is also available in source code form from https://github.com/devsim/devsim.

12.5. Directory Structure

A DEVSIM directory is created with the following sub directories listed in Table 12.2.

Table 12.2 Directory structure for `DEVSIM`.
`bin`	contains the devsim tcl binary
`lib/devsim`	contains the devsim interpreter modules
`lib/devsim/python_packages`	contains runtime libraries
`doc`	contains product documentation
`examples`	contains example scripts
`testing`	contains additional examples used for testing

12.6. Running DEVSIM

See User Interface for instructions on how to invoke DEVSIM.