The CPAL Playground is a web service that allows to write and execute CPAL code without any installation. It is not meant to develop complete applications but probably the best way to quickly discover CPAL and experiment with it. For instance, you can execute in the Playground sample source files that are indexed here. There are limitations to what the CPAL playground can do:

including external files is not possible
visualisation of the functional architecture and the automata embedded in the code is not possible

Go to the CPAL Playground

Setting up the CPAL-Editor

The best programming experience with CPAL is obtained using the CPAL-Editor, as it offers an all-in-one environment with graphical representation of the functional architecture and the automata describing the logics of the tasks, as well as syntax highlighting. It is also possible to run CPAL programs from within the CPAL-Editor and visualize the results.

The CPAL-Editor requires a Java virtual machine version 8, 9 or 10. On Linux and Mac OS X, the following additional steps are needed:

install Graphviz for your platform,
install a few dependencies like SWT libraries that are listed in the readme file of the distribution (under Linux with apt install),

The CPAL-Editor on Windows32 and Windows64 platforms do not require to perform these additional steps.

CPAL Binaries

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CPAL-Editor for Windows32

CPAL-Editor for Windows64

CPAL command line tools for Windows 32/64

CPAL-Editor for Linux64

CPAL command line tools for Linux64

CPAL command line tools for Raspberry

CPAL-Editor for Mac OS X

CPAL command line tools for Mac OS X

CPAL Samples

CPAL Programming Manual

CPAL run-time environment for Freescale FRDM

Porting CPAL to your platform?

Experimenting in the CPAL Playground

Setting up the CPAL-Editor