Building quick-lint-js on Linux from source

Build with CMake & Ninja

0. Install build dependencies

Before building quick-lint-js, install the following third-party dependencies:

• GCC version 8.3 or newer
• CMake version 3.10 or newer
• Ninja

For Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint, run the following command to install all necessary dependencies:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cmake g++ ninja-build

For Fedora, run the following command to install all necessary dependencies:

sudo dnf install cmake gcc-c++ ninja-build

For Arch Linux, run the following command to install all necessary dependencies:

sudo pacman -Syy cmake gcc ninja

1. Configure with CMake

Run the following command to create a directory called build:

mkdir build ; cd build ; cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .. ; cd "$OLDPWD"

2. Build

Run the following command to build the quick-lint-js executable, quick-lint-js’ tests, and quick-lint-js’ benchmarks:

ninja -C build

If you only want to build the quick-lint-js executable:

ninja -C build quick-lint-js

If you only want to build quick-lint-js’ tests:

ninja -C build quick-lint-js-test

3. Run

Run the following command to run quick-lint-js’ test suite:

./build/test/quick-lint-js-test

If you want to run the quick-lint-js program:

./build/quick-lint-js --help