Install on Windows (from source, with CMAKE)

Prerequisites

• You must have a C++ compiler. We assume here ​Visual Studio 2008. The freely available ​Express Edition is fine.
• You must also download and install ​CMake 2.6.2 (.exe installer) or later.

Optional tools:

• For HTML document generation you need to install a recent version of Doxygen and Ghostscript.
• If you want to keep track of the latest development of LEMON or even contribute to it, you need the ​Mercurial distributed version control system. We strongly recommend to use ​TortoiseHg which provides a simple installer for Mercurial, a nice GUI and also an integration to the MS-Windows Explorer.

Obtaining the Source

• Either download and extract the following .zip files.
  • Latest stable release, version 1.0.1 (.zip)
  • Latest development snapshot (.zip)
• Or check out it with Mercurial. The development repository url is
  • http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/hg/lemon-main

Finally - assuming you use a recent version of use Visual Studio - start a "Visual Studio Command Prompt" from the start menu. Then, in the command prompt, step into the extracted LEMON source directory and type in the following commands.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" ..
nmake
nmake install