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:
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 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.
tar xvf epoch_ide_0.4.0-linux.gtk.x86_64.tar.gz
cd epoch_ide_0.4.0-linux.gtk.x86_64
./epoch
open downloaded file
xattr -cr Epoch.app
open Epoch.app
unzip epoch_ide_0.4.0-win32.win32.x86_64.zip
cd epoch_ide_0.4.0-win32.win32.x86_64
.\epoch
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.
tar xvf lf-cli-0.4.0.tar.gz
./lf-cli-0.4.0/bin/lfc --version
unzip lf-cli-0.4.0.zip
.\lf-cli-0.4.0\bin\lfc.ps1 --version
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.