Instructions for Installation of JCreator

Before installing JCreator, be sure that you install, or have installed, Sun's Java SDK

This is important because JCreator uses the SDK for many of its operations.

To install Sun's Java SDK:
  1. First of all, ensure that your computer system can handle the program. For Windows, the system requirements are here.
  2. You first need to download the Java SDK from Sun's website by going here if running windows. Then go down about 3/4 of the page and click the continue button. Otherwise, you can proceed from this link.
  3. After downloading the file, follow their installation instructions which can be found here.
When downloading JCreator from their website, it will come as a "zip" file. Therefore, you will need an "unzip" utility to continue. Two examples of these are PowerZip and WinZip. Powerzip's free trial is for 45 days which would suffice for this purpose, and costs only $20 for a full-functioning, unlimited program.WinZip's evaluation version is for 21 days which is also sufficient for what you need to install JCreator. The full version of WinZip costs $29.


To Install JCreator:
  1. Download the file from JCreator.com.
  2. Next, you need to extract from the "zip" file you just downloaded. With PowerZip, you can right-click on the zip file and choose "Extract to...", and then choose where you want to put the contents. For WinZip, double-click the zip file and then choose Extract.

  3. Before continuing, be sure that you have the Java SDK installed on your computer. JCreator looks for this to make a path to the compiler. JCreator will still install without it, but then you will have to take extra measures to install the SDK and then point JCreator to its location.

  4. Now that you have extracted the contents of the "zip" file, you should have a folder named jcrea200. Go into that folder and find a program titled "Setup.exe". Double-click that program and follow the instructions that it gives.

You should now be ready to use JCreator!!