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Installing the binaries

  1. Download the 32-bit or 64-bit zip file.
  2. Drag and drop the downloaded and unzipped folder to the location of your choice, and rename it "Open Ephys."
  3. Run FrontPanelUSB-DriverOnly-Win-x4.0.8.exe to install the acquisition board driver. Unfortunately, the driver isn't compatible with Windows 8.
  4. Double-click the "open-ephys" executable to run the application.

Building from source

  1. Create a GitHub account if you haven't already.
  2. While logged into your account, go to https://github.com/open-ephys/GUI and click the "Fork" button in the upper right. You now have your own copy of the GUI repository. Any changes you make will only affect this copy. (More info on forking here.)
  3. Make sure you have GitHub for Windows installed.
  4. Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 if you haven't already.
  5. Direct your browser to https://github.com/yourusername/GUI, where "yourusername" is replaced by your actual GitHub user name.
  6. Click the "Clone in Desktop" button.
  7. Run GUI/Resources/DLLs/FrontPanelUSB-DriverOnly-Win-x4.0.8.exe to install the acquisition board driver. Unfortunately, the driver isn't compatible with Windows 8.
  8. In Visual Studio, select the open-ephys.sln file from the GUI/Builds/VisualStudio2012 folder.
  9. Hit the "Debug" button to build the GUI from source.
  10. Copy GUI/Resources/Bitfiles/rhd2000.bit to the Debug/bin folder created by Visual Studio

Now you can both use the GUI and make changes to the source code. We recommend reading through the developer documentation before doing so.

NOTE: The debug version of the GUI runs really slowly on Windows. If you're doing any actual data acquisition, you should build the release version instead, which runs smoothly.

Any changes you commit can be synced with your GitHub repository through the GitHub application or from the command line. If you change something that you think would be useful for others, you can submit a pull request to the Open Ephys version of the GUI.

64bit Build Notes

 To build the 64 bit Windows version of the GUI

  • Either of the 64bit configurations (Debug64 or Release64) must be selected.
  • x64 architecture must me selected either from the configuration manager or the "Solution Plattforms" combo box (if enabled in your workspace).
  • The binaries will be placed on a different folder than their 32bit counterparts

 

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