Technical FAQ

Software requirements

To obtain the source code of EwE 5 and 6, you will need the following:

• A Subversion client such as ?TortoiseSVN to get a copy of the source code from the EwE Subversion repository,
• Log-in access to SVN, which we will provide to you upon request.
• The URL to our Subversion repository: http://sources.ecopath.org/svn/Ecopath/trunk/Ecopath6
• Note: if you cannot use SVN, you can download the latest version of the EwE6 source code ?as a zip file.

>> Show SVN step-by-step instructions

To compile and run the source code of Ecopath version 6, you require:

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 or newer. The EwE6 user interface source only runs on Windows, as it is not ?MONO compliant.
• ?Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 community edition or newer.
• ?Microsoft 2010 database engine.

>> Show Visual Studio step-by-step instructions

To compile and run the source code of Ecopath version 5, you require:

• ?Microsoft Visual Basic 6.
• Windows XP. Visual Basic 6 does not work well on the 64 bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. You can develop using Windows 7 and 8 excellent ?Hyper-V virtual PC.

Code documentation

• Documenting your code - How to write and publish in-code documentation with Visual Studio and ?SandCastle

Coding issues

We've ran into a series of limitations and oddities that we want to prevent from happening. Here are a few links that convey some of our experiences:

• Best practices, coding guidelines and user interface design guidelines
• Solving key EwE6 source code errors