Download and Install Lingua Franca
All Lingua Franca tools require Java 17 or up (download from Oracle). Each target language may have additional requirements (see the Target Language Details page and select your target language). The alternatives for using Lingua Franca are:
Visual Studio Code
The easiest way to get started with Lingua Franca is to install our Visual Studio Code extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace or VSX Registry. To install this extension from the marketplace, launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl + P) and enter ext install lf-lang.vscode-lingua-franca
. See more details.
Epoch IDE
Epoch can be installed in any directory. It is convenient to add the installation directory to your PATH
, or, a Mac, you can drag epoch.app
to the Applications folder and open it from anywhere using open -a epoch
. To get the current development version of Epoch, see the Epoch repo.
Linux
Download
Epoch IDE 0.4.0 for Linux and run:
tar xvf epoch_ide_0.4.0-linux.gtk.x86_64.tar.gz
cd epoch_ide_0.4.0-linux.gtk.x86_64
./epoch
Windows
Download
Epoch IDE 0.4.0 for Windows and run:
unzip epoch_ide_0.4.0-win32.win32.x86_64.zip
cd epoch_ide_0.4.0-win32.win32.x86_64
.\epoch
See
more details.
Lingua Franca Compiler (command-line)
Our command line compiler can be installed in any directory. It is most convenient to add the bin
directory to your PATH
. To download the current development version of the command-line tools, replace the following tar and zip files with those from the nightly build.
See
more details.
Developer Setup
If you'd like to contribute to Lingua Franca and build our toolchain on your own, you can find details about the recomended developer setup here.