Quick Installing Sapid

The Sapid project aims at providing a tool platform that deals with several programming languages, including C and Java. Additionally, its products have been used successfully on many platforms including Linux, Solaris, Windows, and MacOS X.

NOTE: Here we will only explain the procedure for installing some products (called Japid) related to the Sapid/XML on UNIX platforms (e.g., Linux and Solaris). If you prefer to fully install Sapid or know further information about it, please visit Sapid Home Page. See also the Sapid Install Manual if you can understand Japanese.

System Requirements

To compile and run, Sapid requires:

Installing Sapid

Installing the binary version of Sapid

  1. Download Sapid 5.285 (Sapid-5.285-bin.tar.gz for Redhad Linux 9 or Sapid-5.285-win-bin.tar.gz for Windows).
  2. Expand the downloaded Sapid-5.285-bin.tar.gz or Sapid-5.285-win-bin.zip file to a directory /usr/local.
  3. You can find the /usr/local/Sapid or /usr/loca/Sapid-GCC directory including the bin, class, doc, fixed-include, include, and lib directories.

Installing and compiling the source version of Sapid

  1. Download Sapid 5.285 (Sapid-5.285.tar.gz) or later from here.
  2. Expand the downloaded Sapid-*.tar.gz file using GUnzip and untar the contents of the expanded file to some directory. We will call this directory $SAPID_TOP.
  3. Change the current directory to $SAPID_TOP.
  4. Configure the SapidSite.def file in the $SAPID_TOP/Sapid directory.
  5. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the directory where you installed Java.
  6. Execute "xmkmf -a" in the to create all Makefile files.
  7. Execute "make" to compile Japid (Japid)
  8. Execute "su root" and "make install" to install the binary and setting files.
  9. You can find the bin, class, doc, fixed-include, include, and lib directories in the the SapidDest directory.

Contact Information

If you have questions about Sapid, please contact:

Shinichiro Yamamoto [yamamoto@ist.aichi-pu.ac.jp][yamamoto@sapid.org]
Department of Information Systems
Faculty of Information Science and Technology
Aichi Prefectual University


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