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You can use either GCC or Clang to build Jsonnet. Note that on recent versions of macOS, /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/g++ are actually Clang, so there is no difference.

To build Jsonnet with GCC, run:

make

To build Jsonnet with Clang, run:

make CC=clang CXX=clang++

To run the output binary, run:

./jsonnet

To run the reformatter, run:

./jsonnetfmt

Bazel builds are also supported. Install Bazel if it is not installed already. Then, run the following command to build with GCC:

bazel build -c opt //cmd:all

To build with Clang, use one of these two options:

env CC=clang CXX=clang++ bazel build -c opt //cmd:all

# OR

bazel build -c opt --action_env=CC=clang --action_env=CXX=clang++ //cmd:all

This builds the jsonnet and jsonnetfmt targets defined in cmd/BUILD. To launch the output binaries, run:

bazel-bin/cmd/jsonnet
bazel-bin/cmd/jsonnetfmt

cmake . -Bbuild

cmake --build build --target run_tests

See the contributing page on our website.

To run the comprehensive suite:

make test

First, you need to build the JavaScript version of Jsonnet (which requires emscripten):

make doc/js/libjsonnet.js

Then, from the root of the repository you can generate and serve the website using Jekyll:

tools/scripts/serve_docs.sh

This should the website on localhost:8080, automatically rebuild when you change any underlying files, and automatically refresh your browser when that happens.