Another way of running Alchemist is by using the redistributable jar file. However, using the simulator via Gradle is recommended. For further information, see how to Running Alchemist via Gradle.

Such jar file can be downloaded from the releases section on github.

If you got the redistributable, runnable Alchemist jar file, launching the simulator is straightforward. Open a terminal and move to the folder where the jar is located, then issue:

java -jar alchemist-full-VERSION-all.jar

Remember to substitute VERSION with the Alchemist version you actually have downloaded. You can still use alchemist in a modularized form using jars. In this case, use alchemist-VERSION-all.jar and all the jars corresponding to the modules you need. Pass them to the java command as classpath, e.g.:

java -cp alchemist-VERSION-all.jar:alchemist-incarnation-protelis-VERSION-all.jar:alchemist-swingui-VERSION-all.jar it.unibo.alchemist.Alchemist --help

Under Windows, the separator is ; in place of :

This command will print information on the available command line options.