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The BCVTB release includes the binary files that are compiled for Windows. It also contains source code that can be compiled on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Compilation is only required for Mac OS X and Linux.

To install the BCVTB, proceed as follows:

1. Follow the user installation instruction. This is sufficient for most users.

2. Next, if you like to develop new code for Ptolemy or for the BCVTB interface, follow the developer installation instruction.

Note for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer may save the file with the extension .zip instead of .jar. To avoid this, click "Save Target As..." (using the right mouse button) and then enter the name of the installation file, for example, bcvtb-install-0.3.0.jar. (Or use Firefox to avoid this problem.)

1. Release 0.3.0 pre-release (July 16, 2009)

Download installation files

• bcvtb-install-0.3.0-pre-release.jar

• ep-3.1.zip This zip-file requires a password. To obtain the password, email the password of the official EnergyPlus installation to MichaelWetter.

1.1. Release notes

1. This version contains a subset of Ptolemy. Users do not need to install their own Ptolemy version.
2. Cygwin is not required anymore.

3. In the files variables.cfg, the header needs to look like

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <!DOCTYPE BCVTB-variables SYSTEM "variables.dtd">
   <BCVTB-variables>

   i.e., you need to add the second line to your existing file.

4. Due to shipping a new Ptolemy version, the files system.xml and system-windows.xml had to be changed. Previous files can be updated by running the following bash script from the examples directory [attachment:fixModels.sh].

2. Release 0.2.0 (June 30, 2009)

Download installation files

• bcvtb-install-0.2.0.jar

• ep-3.1.zip This zip-file requires a password. To obtain the password, email the password of the official EnergyPlus installation to MichaelWetter.

2.1. Release notes

1. The parameters of the Ptolemy Simulator object changed. To update your files system-windows.xml (or system.xml on Linux or Mac), run from cygwin (or a bash shell) the command

   $BCVTB_HOME/bin/updateSystemFiles.sh system-windows.xml

2. The EnergyPlus object DAYSCHEDULE:DYNAMIC has been renamed to SCHEDULE:DAY:DYNAMIC.

3. Due to a change in the parameters of the Simulator object, file names must not be quoted anymore. I.e., in system.xml or in system-windows.xml, change "socket.cfg" to socket.cfg.

4. The Simulator object now writes the simulation output to a log file (default is simulation.log) and to the console. However, console output is currently only working on Linux and on Mac OS X. The reason is that Ptolemy on Windows is started using javaw which does not write the output stream to the console.

5. The build system has been changed from Makefiles to Apache Ant. Cygwin is still needed to compile Ptolemy on Windows, but the compilation of the BCVTB does not require cygwin anymore.

3. Release 0.1.1 (September 30, 2008)

3.1. Release notes

1. The EnergyPlus executable that contains the BCVTB interface is not part of this distribution. To obtain the EnergyPlus 2.1.0 executable with the BCVTB interface, email a request together with the EnergyPlus installation password to MichaelWetter.

2. Improved reporting to log files by the socket library.
3. Improved the make files.
4. This release contains the following bug fixes:
   1. Fixed a buffer overflow in the socket library.

   2. Updated the example in example/timeSync so that it also runs on Windows.

4. Release 0.1.0 (July 17, 2008)

4.1. Release notes

1. The EnergyPlus executable that contains the BCVTB interface is not part of this distribution. To obtain the EnergyPlus 2.1.0 executable with the BCVTB interface, email a request together with the EnergyPlus installation password to MichaelWetter.

2. This release compiles and runs fine on Mac OS X and on Linux. On Windows, the example file example/timeSync does not yet work.