To install neuroConstruct from source for any of these platforms you'll need:
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Get the latest binary (including precompiled jar file) release from https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/neuroConstruct/releases
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Unzip the file (e.g. neuroConstruct_1.7.2.zip) to your C:\ (Windows) or home directory (Linux/Mac). Make sure the directory is named neuroConstruct not neuroConstruct_1.7.2 etc.
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Open a terminal (Start menu and type cmd in Windows; Terminal under Applications/Utilities in Mac; Linux your favourite terminal)
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Go to the neuroConstruct directory and run the nC script. On Windows:
cd C:\neuroConstruct
nC.bat
You may aso be able to run the application directly by double clicking the file nC (or nC.bat) in C:\neuroConstruct in the file explorer.
On Mac or Linux:
cd ~/neuroConstruct
bash nC.sh
- Ant (http://ant.apache.org/)
- Git (http://git-scm.com/)
- Subversion (http://subversion.apache.org/)
To run simulations generated from neuroConstruct, try
- NEURON (easiest to install, http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron)
or
- GENESIS (http://genesis-sim.org)
- MOOSE (http://moose.sourceforge.net)
- PSICS (http://www.psics.org)
Mac Pre-requisites:
- XCode command line tools downloaded and installed (https://developer.apple.com/xcode/)
Quick install:
git clone git://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/neuroConstruct.git
cd neuroConstruct
./updatenC.sh
To get the Open Source Brain models:
cd osb
./checkOsb.sh -u
To build & run (using Apache Ant)
ant run
To build & run (without Ant)
<< open nC.sh and change NC_HOME >>
./nC.sh -make
./nC.sh
Install the packages listed above or check that they're already installed on your system
Quick install:
git clone git://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/neuroConstruct.git
cd neuroConstruct
updatenC.bat
To get the Open Source Brain models:
cd osb
checkOsb.bat -u
To build & run (using Apache Ant)
ant run
To build & run (without Ant)
<< open nC.bat and change NC_HOME >>
nC.bat -make
nC.bat