Setting Up Your Environment

Before running breve, you'll need to set up the environment variable BREVE_CLASS_PATH. This variable must contain the location of the "lib/classes" directory included in the distribution. Setting this environment is done differently for different shells and platforms. Some examples are shown below. path to breve is the location of the breve distribution folder that you downloaded.

# tcsh users (Linux & OSX):
        setenv BREVE_CLASS_PATH /<path to breve>/lib/classes

# bash users (Linux & OSX):
        export BREVE_CLASS_PATH=/<path to breve>/lib/classes

# Windows console users:
        SET BREVE_CLASS_PATH=C:\<path to breve>\LIB\CLASSES

You may freely move around the files in the breve distribution (to install them in /usr/local on a UNIX system, for example), but be sure to set your BREVE_CLASS_PATH accordingly.