Download

You can obtain Glamorous Toolkit in three ways: downloading a ready made distribution, cloning the code explicitly, or manually downloading the artifacts.

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Mac

Run GlamorousToolkit.app and point it to the GlamorousToolkit.image file.

Linux

Run ./glamoroustoolkit GlamorousToolkit.image --no-quit --interactive from the command line.

Windows

Run GlamorousToolkit.exe.

Clone the latest code and install in one step

This method downloads the VM and clones all gtoolkit repositories. It takes about 20 minutes and it is useful for developing Glamorous Toolkit itself.

On Mac:

curl https://dl.feenk.com/scripts/mac.sh | bash

On Linux:

curl https://dl.feenk.com/scripts/linux.sh | bash

On Windows:

wget https://dl.feenk.com/scripts/windows.ps1 -OutFile windows.ps1; ./windows.ps1

Manually download the image, libraries and VM

  1. Get the latest VM specific to your system Win Mac Linux

  2. Get the latest image release of GlamorousToolkit and the libriaries zip files specific to your system. For example, on Windows it would be GT.zip and libWin64-v0.7.890.zip.

  3. Unpack all 3 zip files (VM, image files and library files) in the same folder and run . The screenshot below shows a Windows instalation with all dlls, image, and VM files in the same folder.

  4. Execute the following 2 commands in your favorite terminal:

    .\GlamorousToolkitConsole.exe .\GlamorousToolkit.image eval --save "ThreadedFFIMigration enableThreadedFFI."
                
    .\GlamorousToolkitConsole.exe .\GlamorousToolkit.image eval --save "GtWorld openWithShutdownListener. 30 seconds wait. BlHost pickHost universe snapshot: true andQuit: true."

  5. Launch Glamorous Toolkit:

    On Windows:

    .\GlamorousToolkit.exe

    On Mac:

    ./GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/GlamorousToolkit GlamorousToolkit.image --no-quit --interactive

    On Linux:

    ./glamoroustoolkit GlamorousToolkit.image --no-quit --interactive