Building from Source

Details the steps necessary to download the Protege Desktop source code, and build a distribution from those sources.

To follow this step-by-step guide, you must have Maven and Git installed.

• Get a copy of the Protege Desktop source code, i.e., "git clone https://github.com/protegeproject/protege.git protege".
• Change into the protege directory.
• Type mvn clean install.

After the build completes, a Protege Desktop distribution will be available in the following directory:

protege/protege-distribution/target/protege-distribution-${version}-bin/Protege_5.0_beta

Use the run.bat or run.sh scripts to launch Protege Desktop.