See http://nekovm.org/

Compiled binaries can be found in the "artifacts" tab of each AppVeyor build.

Neko snapshot of the latest master branch can be built using homebrew in a single command: brew install neko --HEAD. It will install required dependencies, build, and install Neko to the system. The binaries can be found at brew --prefix neko.

Use brew reinstall neko --HEAD to upgrade in the future.

Ubuntu users can use the Haxe Foundation snapshots PPA to install a Neko package built from the latest master branch. To do so, run the commands as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:haxe/snapshots -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install neko -y

Users of other Linux/FreeBSD distributions should build Neko from source. See below for additional instructions.

Neko can be built using CMake (version 3.x is recommended) and one of the C compilers listed as follows:

• Windows: Visual Studio 2010 / 2013 (Visual Studio 2015 is not yet supported)
• Mac: XCode (with its "Command line tools")
• Linux: gcc (can be obtained by installing the "build-essential" Debian/Ubuntu package)

Neko needs to link with various third-party libraries, which are summerized as follows:

On Windows, CMake will automatically download and build the libraries in the build folder during the build process. However, you need to install Perl manually because OpenSSL needs it for configuration. On Mac/Linux, you should install the libraries manaully to your system before building Neko, or use the STATIC_DEPS CMake option, which will be explained in CMake options.

# make a build directory, and change to it
mkdir build
cd build

# run cmake
cmake ..

# let's build, the outputs can be located in the "bin" directory
make

# install it if you want
# default installation prefix is /usr/local
make install

Below is the instructions of building Neko in a Visual Studio command prompt. You may use the CMake GUI and Visual Studio to build it instead.

# make a build directory, and change to it
mkdir build
cd build

# run cmake
cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013" ..

# let's build, the outputs can be located in the "bin" directory
msbuild ALL_BUILD.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release

# install it if you want
# default installation location is C:\HaxeToolkit\neko
msbuild INSTALL.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release

A number of options can be used to customize the build. They can be specified in the CMake GUI, or passed to cmake in command line as follows:

cmake "-Doption=value" ..

Available on all platforms. Default value: std.ndll;zlib.ndll;mysql.ndll;mysql5.ndll;regexp.ndll;sqlite.ndll;ui.ndll;mod_neko2.ndll;mod_tora2.ndll;ssl.ndll

It defines the ndll files to be built. You may remove ndlls from this list, such that you can avoid installing/building some dependencies.

Available on Mac/Linux. Default value: none

It defines the dependencies that should be linked statically. Can be all, none, or a list of library names (e.g. BoehmGC;Zlib;OpenSSL;MariaDBConnector;PCRE;Sqlite3;APR;APRutil;Apache;MbedTLS).

CMake will automatically download and build the specified dependencies into the build folder. If a library is not present in this list, it should be installed manually, and it will be linked dynamically.

All third-party libraries, except GTK+2 (Linux), can be linked statically. We do not support statically linking GTK+2 due to the diffculty of building it and its own dependencies.

Available on Mac/Linux. Default value: ON

Set RPATH to $ORIGIN (Linux) / @executable_path (Mac). It allows the resulting Neko VM executable to locate libraries (e.g. "libneko" and ndll files) in its local directory, such that the libraries need not be installed to "/usr/lib" or "/usr/local/lib".

Available on Linux. Default value: ON

Whether to run ldconfig automatically after make install. It is for refreshing the shared library cache such that "libneko" can be located correctly by the Neko VM.