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.