Windows installer version: pliant-100b windows installer.

For linux and newer windows versions please consult http://hc.fullpliant.org/doc/install/index.

If you are installing on Windows just run the provided installer.

Important: You can not pick an arbitrary directory to install pliant. When prompted for install path, the default will be "c:\pliant". You may change the drive letter (for example "d:\pliant") but don't change the path.

The recommended way is to use the windows installer. However, if you choose to install from scratch from a zip file, unzip the file into either "c:\" or "d:\" or any other drive-letter root. Suppose you decided to use "c:\pliant", the default location. After uncompressing, you will have directories "c:\pliant", "c:\pliant_data" and "c:\pliant_security". Create a shortcut on your Desktop to "c:\pliant\fullpliant" and execute it. Nothing will open right away, but don't worry, pliant is compiling its core modules. You can see that its working Task Manager's Process tab. In about a minute or two a Pliant UI window will open.

At this point you are set up to run the integrated development environment, which is the recommended way to develop pliant programs. However, should you choose to run pliant from command line, copy c:\pliant\binary\pliant-debug1.exe to c:\pliant\binary\pliant.exe (already done by windows installer) and add c:\pliant\binary to your PATH.

For Linux, untar the tarball to filesystem root:

$ tar xzvf pliant-latest.tgz -C /

This will create directories /pliant, /pliant_data and /pliant_security on your filesystem root. If you don't like to install into filesystem root, you may also install into your home directory.

$ tar xzvf pliant-latest.tgz -C $HOME

In the following discussion lets assume it was uncompressed into root directory /. If you installed elsewhere, modify instructions accordingly.

In any case, after uncompressing the archive, you must execute the /pliant/fullpliant executable.

$ /pliant/fullpliant

Create a symlink to /pliant/binary/pliant-debug1.exe from /usr/bin/pliant

$ ln -s /pliant/binary/pliant-debug1.exe /usr/bin/pliant

The purpose of this command is twofold:

• Generate a binary memory dump file of pliant core modules in /pliant/binary/default-debug1.dump
• Start client UI

If you happen to install pliant on a remote server it is highly recommended to setup a vncserver session for the purposes of initial configuration via pliant client ui. If you can't do that read some tips on pliant Wikia page. After you have completed configuration, you should disable the ui client from executing. To do this, create the file (and leading directories) "/pliant/custom/universal/pliant/fullpliant/run.pli" and place into it the following code,

custom auto
  constant auto_ui true
  constant auto_http true # or false, up to you
  constant auto_console false
                   

Read the http_proxy page.