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{% include JB/setup %}
Zip contains all the necessary third-party jars (including all scala-*.jars) so the archive is pretty heavy (< 30MB). Instructions on how to get it on Linux are:
wget http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~plocinic/type-debugger-binaries/scalad-dist-snapshot.zip
unzip scalad-dist-snapshot.zip
chmod a+x bin/*
./bin/scalad files*
The sources for the prototype are available at [GitHub][scaladsource] (needs update). If you want to build type debugger from scratch on your own you will have to build a specific version of the compiler as well (details available in the repository). For convience we provide ready-to-use binaries at our [snapshot page][download]. The current version of the compiler used is {{ site.scala_compiler.version }}.
After downloading the tarball from the [download page][download] you will have a standard set of command line tools available for compiling and running Scala programs. Apart from that there exists an additional shell script bin/scalad which can start our tool. scalad is just a wrapper around the standard scalac script which makes sure that correct jars are on the classpath. The script accepts the same set of options as the normal scalac. In other words you can treat scalad as a normal Scala compiler frontend with type debugging support (type debugger will never generate bytecode).
[download]: {{ site.sources.download }}/scalad-dist-snapshot.zip [scaladsource]: https://github.com/hubertp/prefuse-type-debugger "Type debugger prototype"