Obtaining the software
Download Xill IDE from the Xill download page.
You will need the archive file and (if you are using any commercial plugins) a license file.
Windows
Setting up files
Extract the program package to a folder you want to start it from.
Starting up
Start the executable 'Xill IDE.exe'.
Adding license file for commercial plugin
- Go to your user folder
- Create a .xillio\xill folder
- Copy the license file into the newly created folder
- (Re)start Xill IDE
Linux
Setting up files
- Download latest multiplatform
.zip
- Open
.zip
and copy contents to an installation folder of your choice - Download and Install the latest Java 8 compatible Java Runtime environment that includes JavaFX (for example here: https://www.java.com/en/download/)
- Execute the shell script
Xill IDE/bin/xill-ide
Adding license file for commercial plugin
- Go to your user folder
- Create a .xillio/xill folder
- Copy the license file into the .xillio/xill folder
- (Re)start Xill IDE
Workaround for timezone issue
In OS X and Linux Java 8 can sometimes return very strange time offsets (based on physical location instead of timezone), for example Amsterdam might have an ofset of +00:19:32 instead of +01:00:00. If you run into problems because of this, please add the following line to your app/Xill IDE.cfg file under the [JVMOptions] header:
Duser.timezone=GMT+2
(Replace +2 by the respective offset of your timezone)
OS X
Setting up files
- Download latest multiplatform
.zip
- Open
.zip
and copy contents to an installation folder of your choice - Download and Install the latest Java 8 compatible Java Runtime environment that includes JavaFX (for example here: https://www.java.com/en/download/)
- Execute the shell script
Xill IDE/bin/xill-ide
Adding license file for commercial plugin
- Go to your user folder
- Create a .xillio/xill folder
- Copy the license file into the newly created folder
- (Re)start Xill IDE
Adding support for Web package
The Web package needs PhantomJS installed:
- Download PhantomJS 2.0.0 from the PhantomJS download site (at your own riks)
- Unpack the .zip to a local folder by double-clicking it
- Copy the binary file in bin/phantomjs to /usr/local/bin
- Download the UPX universal binary (at your own risk)
- Run
sudo upx -d /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
.
Adding support for Exiftool package
Using Homebrew
brew install exiftool
Manual Install
The exiftool package needs several exiftool binaris installed:- Download the exiftool osx executable from http://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
- Install the application
- (Optional) Set your system's environment variable eexiftool_bin to the absolute path of the exiftool file. (Defaults to /usr/local/bin/exiftool)
- Restart Xill IDE
Workaround for timezone issue
In OS X and Linux Java 8 can sometimes return very strange time offsets (based on physical location instead of timezone), for example Amsterdam might have an ofset of +00:19:32 instead of +01:00:00. If you run into problems because of this, please add the following line to your app/Xill IDE.cfg file under the [JVMOptions] header:
Duser.timezone=GMT+2
(Replace +2 by the respective offset of your timezone)
Start coding
You can now start setting up your first project.