twee, the command-line Twee compiler, requires Python. If you are using a Unix-based system like OS X or Linux, you don't need to worry about this requirement; Python should already be installed on your computer. Windows users can get Python here.

On Unix-based systems, you can make the command-line tools available to you by placing the entire extracted directory (including the lib and targets directories) into your PATH. If you use the bash shell, for example, you might put something like this in .bashrc:

export PATH=$PATH:/home/useraccount/twee

You can then run twee directly from the command prompt:

$ twee

On Windows, you can't run twee directly. Instead, you'll need to run the python interpreter on twee like so:

> python twee

If things are set up properly, running twee without any further input should produce this message:

twee: no source files specified

The basic format of a twee command is very simple, and doesn't differ across platforms.

twee sourcefile sourcefile2 sourcefile3... > output.html

You pass it a list of files with source code, and direct its output into an HTML page. There are a few optional switches: