To run GM-SIS, you will need Java 8, minimum version 1.8u60 (higher on Windows) with either Oracle JavaFX Runtime or OpenJFX Runtime. A copy of Oracle's JRE 1.8u121 is provided in the release .tar.xz file for both Windows and Linux.
At present, the state of the Windows version of the JRE is dire - JavaFX is broken as per
my research.
If you cannot run gmsis.jar, or the application crashes or hangs when a combo box or dropdown
is opened, and the submission that came through the coursework submission
system does not include any JREs due to space constraints, you can either download a
"fully-loaded" version from GitHub,
or download a .tar.gz JRE appropriate for your system
from Oracle,
and use it to run gmsis.jar (if you untar it to the directory containing gmsis.jar,
use instructions below on running with a bundled JRE on Windows, but remember to update the
path to java.exe).
The following commands assume you are in the directory containing gmsis.jar.
To run GM-SIS with your system Java, use the following command:
java -jar gmsis.jarTo run GM-SIS with the bundled JRE on Linux, use the following command:
./launch-gmsis.sh
# Equivalent to below but also updates JAVA_HOME and PATH for that run
# ./jre1.8.0_121-linux/bin/java -jar gmsis.jarTo run GM-SIS with the bundled JRE on Windows, use the following command:
./jre1.8.0_121-windows/bin/java.exe -jar gmsis.jar(Sorry, no launch script - PowerShell is disabled on our Windows profiles)
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