Mesquite installation for Windows

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NOTE: If you previously installed an older version of Mesquite, we recommend you delete the Mesquite_Folder directory before installing the new version. First, however, you may want to take from Mesquite_Folder/mesquite any third party packages (e.g., PDAP, TreeSetViz) before deleting the directory.

In order to run Mesquite, you must have Java 1.4 or newer installed on your computer. We recommend you install the latest version of Java before installing Mesquite (java.sun.com).

Instructions:

1. Download the Mesquite Installer. There are also special installer for high-memory version of Mesquite (512MB memory dedicated to Mesquite; 1GB dedicated). You might want to use a high memory version if you are using many trees, large trees, or large matrices.
2. Run the installer. It runs as a wizard. Once it is done, you should see a Mesquite folder something like this:
   
   
   
3. The file "Mesquite" with the icon is the Mesquite executable. Double click this to start Mesquite.
4. You will notice a file called "Run_Mesquite_Windows.bat" in the Mesquite_Folder. This is a batch file that contains the command line instruction to start Mesquite. If you double click this file, Mesquite will start. We include this file because you can modify the command line to change how Mesquite runs when you double click the batch file. In particular, you can change the number "512", the memory allocation, to higher numbers if you need more memory (don't introduce spaces!).

More details of issues of using Mesquite under Windows are described in the Support page.