Installing Cyclone

## E Installing Cyclone

Cyclone currently only runs on 32-bit machines. It has been tested on Linux, Windows 98/NT/2K/XP using the Cygwin environment, and on Mac OS X. Other platforms might or might not work. Right now, there are a few 32-bit dependencies in the compiler, so the system will probably not work on a 64-bit machine without major changes.
To install and use Cyclone, you'll need to use the Gnu utilities, including gcc (the Gnu C compiler) and Gnu-Make. For Windows, you should first install the latest version of the Cygwin utilities to do the build, and make sure that the Cygwin `bin` directory is on your path. We use some features of gcc extensively, so Cyclone definitely will not build with another C compiler.
Cyclone is distributed as a compressed archive (a .tar.gz file). Unpack the distribution into a directory; if you are installing Cyclone on a Windows system, we suggest you choose `c:/cyclone`.
From here, follow the instructions in the INSTALL file included in the distribution.