All programs of the Flux Project, including the libraries of the Flux Simulator and the Flux Capacitor, are platform-independent Java programs and run on all platforms providing the requirements described in the following:
For the Flux Project, a Java 1.6 compliant runtime environment is necessary. It is recommended to employ the most recent Java Runtime Environment (JRE) available from the traditional Java project in order to avoid issues that arose in some custom JRE implementations.
To run the Flux Simulator or the Flux Capacitor, a minimum of 1GB RAM should be reserved. Moreover, a fast disk is strongly recommended, more details on the programs' implementation are available in the forum.
The Flux Capacitor additionally relies on C-libraries that are provided in pre-compiled form for popular operating systems, i.e., 32bit and 64bit Linux, OSX as well as Windows platforms. For other operating systems, additional tools to compile C-code are necessary as summarized in the corresponding installation instructions.
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The Flux Capacitor bundle includes precompiled binaries of the lp_solve program developed by Kjell Eikland and Peter Notebaert, and the corresponding JNI interface developed by Juergen Ebert. Use and distribution of these files are subject to the terms defined by the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), details are available from the lp_solve homepage.
