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2.3 Microsoft Windows

Users of the Microsoft Windows operating system can install the self-extracting Asymptote executable asymptote-install-x.xx.exe. The recommended installation directory is c:\Program Files\Asymptote. If you wish to install Asymptote in another directory, say d:\Asymptote, you can tell Asymptote where to find plain.asy and its other base modules by creating a file %USERPROFILE%/.asy/config.asy containing the lines

import settings;
dir="d:\Asymptote";

A working TeX implementation (such as the one available at http://www.miktex.org) will be required to typeset labels. The Python interpretor from http://www.python.org is only required if you wish to try out the graphical user interface (see GUI).

Example code will be installed by default in c:\Program Files\Asymptote\examples.