Installing Leiningen and LightTable on Windows

on general and setup

For this class, we will use Leiningen for dependency and project management, and LightTable as our IDE. We could use any IDE, but the inline evaluation that LightTable allows is a great learning tool.

Anyways, settting up LightTable and Leiningen on Windows can be tricky, so our class participant Punit Jajodia wrote up instructions here:

http://www.programtopia.net/clojure-leningin-lighttable-setup-windows

The main steps are (the first four must be done in order:

  1. Install the latest JDK
  2. Modify Environment Variables ($PATH, $JAVA_HOME) so Windows can find Java
  3. Install Maven
  4. Modify Environment Variables ($PATH)
  5. Install Leiningen
  6. Install LightTable

Modifying Windows Environment Variables actually requires some tricks (such as referring to the standard Program Files folder as PROGA~1, so be sure to check out Punit's post, complete with screenshots).