# Installation

Due to its platform independence and the limited availability of platforms for development and testing it is not possible to give exact instructions on how to install QWICK on your machine; but it is not too difficult to do anyway. You need to be aware that you need two components, QWICK itself, and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), version 1.2 or later. This can be downloaded from Sun's website, and a version suitable for Windows is also bundled on this CD. Please note that the JRE has been produced by Sun Microsystems and has its own user licence; it is a completely independent product from QWICK.

The JRE is available for a variety of platforms, unfortunately it is not possible to include versions for other operating systems as well. The JRE has its own installation instructions, but you should take a note of where on your system it is being installed.

QWICK will either run straight off the CD, or you can copy it onto your machine for better performance. In order to run it you must tell your system where to find it; in Java this is done with the classpath. Within the installation directory you will find several sub directories. In the directory `bin' you will find the actual program in a file called qwick-1.01.jar; this file needs to be in your class path (see the JRE documentation for a description of this).

The software is started with the command-line below, which you might want to put into a batch file/shell script or shortcut on your system:

                 java uk.ac.bham.clg.cue.qwick.QwickStart

On a Windows system this could look like this:

    "c:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.2\bin\java" -cp c:\qwick\bin\qwick-1.01.jar uk.ac.bham.clg.cue.qwick.QwickStart

For this you would need to be in the installation directory called `qwick`. This directory has several subdirectories, like `codes', `corpora', `bin' etc. If you are not in the right directory, the program will print out an error message and will stop.

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