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Please do not post bug reports here. This FAQ is intended for accumulating both questions and answers provided by developers, or experienced Swarm users. Please post bug reports and/or ask questions on the mailing lists.

This FAQ is incomplete and somewhat neglected. A more active FAQ is Paul Johnson's, at: http://pj.freefaculty.org/SwarmFaq/SwarmOnlineFaq.html.

1. Swarm: History, Overview, Etc
2. Objective-C vs. Java
3. Support libraries
   • Required
     • BLT
     • TCL/Tk
   • Optional
     • hdf5
     • Java Development Kit--Sun J2SDK or Kaffe
   • Libraries that are not needed anymore
     • libffi
     • tclobjc
4. Installing Swarm
   • Programs needed to compile Swarm
   • How to compile Swarm: advice for all platforms
   • Unix/Linux
   • MS Windows
   • Macintosh
5. Writing and Compiling Swarm Code
   • Objective-C
   • Java
   • C++
6. Troubleshooting Run Time Problems
   • Common run time problems
   • Graphical user interface
   • Batch mode
   • Using the debugger
   • How can I make my model go faster?
   • Using the profiler to understand and speed up your model
   • Checking for memory leaks (does not exist yet)