HOW_TO_COMPILE.md

Prerequisites (Unix only):

* GCC 4.2 or newer (for SpiderMonkey builds 4.7+)
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
* for SpiderMonkey : 'which' python module (sudo easy_install tools/which-1.1.0-py2.7.egg)
* for Windows (VS2012+) and Visual C++ Redistributable

First clone the source codes from Github: (or Download as a .zip file)

git clone https://github.com/jxcore/jxcore.git

You may want to jump into Android, or iOS compilation details.

To compile for desktop/server environments;

SpiderMonkey

./configure --prefix=/jxcoreSM --engine-mozilla
make install

V8

./configure --prefix=/jxcoreV8
make install

On Windows:

/ $> vcbuild.bat

After a successful compilation process, you should have jxcore installed into /jxcoreSM/bin or /jxcoreV8/bin folder (depending on the engine selection).

JXcore internal JavaScript files can be embedded in two ways (compressed, or as-is). If you are planning to use jx binary for a native package creation, we advice you to use the compressed build. !! In order to compile with compressed build, you should have a jx binary ready on your platform. You may compile the non-compressed version first and then compressed one second.

SpiderMonkey and Compressed Internals

./configure --prefix=/jxcoreSM --engine-mozilla --compress-internals
make install

V8 and Compressed Internals

./configure --prefix=/jxcoreV8 --compress-internals
make install

Windows;

/ $> vcbuild.bat --compress-internals

Compile as a Static Library You can compile JXcore as a static library and embed it into your solution.

Simply add --static-library parameter to one of the above configure definitions. You should have the compiled lib files inside the target installation folder.

On Windows;

/ $> vcbuild.bat --shared-library

Notes

If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:

export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make install

You can download (latest stable) binaries for various operating systems from
http://jxcore.com/downloads/
(Future jxcore.io releases will be shared from http://jxcore.io)