Software installation

System requirements

Make sure the following minimum system requirements are met:

Hardware

x86 compatible processor, 8GB RAM

Operating system

Microsoft Windows 10, 64-bit
Linux - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - GNOME 3, 64-bit (GTK 3.24, Kernel 5.4.0)

Java runtime environment

version 11, 64-bit

Get the latest IDE version

You can get the newest version of the HighTec IDE development platform from here:

Windows

https://download.hightec-rt.com/htcide-archives/htc-ide-latest-win.tar.gz

Linux

https://download.hightec-rt.com/htcide-archives/htc-ide-latest-lin.tar.gz

Installation

The HighTec IDE is either automatically installed together with the toolchain development platform, or you can install it by following these points:

Windows

  1. Locate the downloaded htc-ide-latest-win.zip file.

  2. Unzip the file into your local storage. (it is recommended to keep new installation at default IDE location C:\HIGHTEC\ide)

  3. Create the desktop shortcut:

    1. Locate htc-ide.exe in the previously unzip location

    2. right-click  Send to  Desktop (create shortcut)

Linux

  1. Locate the downloaded htc-ide-latest-lin.tar.gz

  2. Extract the file into your local storage. (The TAR archive must be extracted to a directory where the user has got the full R/W/X rights.)

  3. Run the htc-ide from the directory where TAR was extracted

    Note: Some versions of HighTec toolchains marked as 64-bit have a dependency on 32-bit libraries that might not be a default part of the 64-bit Linux distributions. Consequently, the make fails to execute toolchain processes during the build attempt. Depending on your distribution the issue might not be present or the resolution might differ. For Ubuntu 20.04 you may try to install the lib32z1 library by following command: sudo apt install lib32z1. The build process, in addition, utilizes the make command which is a part of neither the IDE nor a toolchain installation on Linux. You should check the make is installed and available in the Path (e.g. running the make --version or the which make from the command line). Try sudo apt install make command to get one.