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 Java JDK 8, Maven, and Git installed.

1. Clone Protege source code from Github. Type in a console:

git clone https://github.com/protegeproject/protege.git

2. Change to the protege directory. Type in the console:

cd protege

3. Build Protege. Type in a console:

mvn clean package

After the build completes, a Protege Desktop distribution will be available in the following directory: protege/protege-desktop/target/protege-${version}-platform-independent-bin/Protege-${version}. As an example, you may find the distribution packages are at protege-desktop/target/protege-5.1.1-SNAPSHOT-platform-independent/Protege-5.1.1-SNAPSHOT

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

The difference with https://github.com/protegeproject/protege-distribution is it lack some third party plugins.