Installing Scala on Windows

Written on September 2nd, 2009 by Thorno shouts

Here’s some simple guide for you to install Scala in Windows environment.

1.Make sure you have Java installed. Fire up a command line window and type “java -version”, if you have installed Java, you should be able to see the Java version message displayed.

2.Download Scala from http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads . The latest stable version is 2.7.5 as this post is written.

3.Unzip the file and put in, let’s say “c:\dev\scala”.

4.Add a new environment variable named “SCALA_HOME” and the value is “c:\dev\scala”.

5.In your “PATH” environment variable, append the following at the end of the line “%SCALA_HOME%\bin”.

6.Fire up another command line window and type “scala”. You should be able to see the following message.

Welcome to Scala version 2.7.5.final (Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, Java 1.6.0_14).
Type in expressions to have them evaluated.
Type :help for more information.
scala&gt;

Type “:quit” to quit the Scala interactive shell and we are done.

Happy coding.