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Daikon invariant detector distribution

This is the distribution site for the Daikon invariant detector.
The current release is Daikon version 4.6.4, released June 23, 2010. (CHANGES file)
A more recent version is available in Daikon's version control repository at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/daikon/source/checkout.

In addition to the below downloads, also see the documentation and the mailing lists.

Daikon distribution: This is everything most people need to get started with invariant detection.
Choose a format (both have the same contents):
- Zip file: daikon.zip (23 June 2010, 95 Mbytes)
- Gzipped tar file: daikon.tar.gz (23 June 2010, 91 Mbytes)
Download either the zip file or the tar file, whichever you prefer. The Daikon distribution includes everything you need to start using Daikon: source files, compiled files (including daikon.jar), documentation, examples, and more.
Front ends
A front end enables Daikon to work on a specific programming language, such as Java, C/C++, Eiffel, or Perl. The Daikon distribution contains front ends that are sufficient for most people's purposes (including front ends for Java, C, C++, Perl, and other languages). Here we provide additional downloads for unusual circumstances.
- Java front end, Chicory
  Sources for Chicory, the front end for Java, are included with Daikon, and you don't have to download any additional files or do any other installation in order to use it.
- C/C++ front end, Kvasir
  Sources for the Kvasir front end for C/C++ are included in the distribution. You should build Kvasir yourself from the sources, which is easy to do; see "Installing Kvasir" in the Daikon manual. Kvasir only works on the Linux/x86 platform.
- Eiffel front end, Citadel
  Download Citadel from http://se.inf.ethz.ch/people/polikarpova/citadel.html. The front end is usable but has some limitations; in particular, the "Daikon limitations" that are described here are actually limitations of the Eiffel front end, not of Daikon itself.
- Deprecated C/C++ front end, mangel-wurzel
  The Mangel-Wurzel front end for C/C++ source code is an alternative to Kvasir. It can work on essentially any platform, but it has fewer features than Kvasir. Furthermore, to use Mangel-Wurzel, you must purchase and install Rational Purify (or at least download an evaluation copy). If you have access to a Linux/x86 platform, we recommend use of Kvasir.
  The mangel-wurzel distribution is a tar file containing a prebuilt binary; see "Installing mangel-wurzel" in the Daikon manual. License restrictions prevent us from distributing source for the mangel-wurzel front end. Send mail to daikon-developers@pag.csail.mit.edu to request a binary for another system if it is not on this list.
  - x86 Debian Linux (1 Jan 2006)
  - x86 Windows (1 Jan 2006)
CVS: Daikon's version control repository is also available. One feature of the CVS repository is a set of regression tests. (Full source code for Daikon, and unit tests, are included in the main distribution, but the full regression tests are not, for reasons of size.)

As an alternative to downloading Daikon, members of the Daikon project may use their csail.mit.edu accounts to access the Daikon source directly. See the instructions for using Daikon at MIT CSAIL.