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Installation and Setup

At a minimum, you need a POSIX environment with:

  • make
  • python3 with pip and venv
  • ruby with gem and bundler

Optionally, you might also want mmark or NodeJS and npm.

When running locally, a python virtual environment is created under lib/ and necessary tools are installed there. Similarly, ruby installations are created under lib/. The tools that are used can be updated with make update-deps.

General

These tools work well natively on Linux and Mac.

Windows users should use the Windows Subsystem for Linux with a Linux distribution like Ubuntu (wsl --install -d Ubuntu from an administrator prompt).

From within Ubuntu, you can install the dependencies for this repository:

sudo apt-get install -y git make python3-pip python3-venv

You can also add recommended packages, as follows:

sudo apt-get install -y ruby-bundler npm libxml2-utils

It is also possible to use cygwin or an MSYS2-based system (like Mozilla-Build), but these can be more difficult to setup and use.

make

Mac users might need to install Homebrew to get a version of make that fully supports all of the template features. Apple ships an old version of GNU make with XCode which can fail in mysterious ways. Some effort has been made to avoid this bustage, so most features work fine, but no warranty is made if something breaks.

brew install make

Note that this might install as gmake. Follow the instructions to add this as make to your path.

Python

You need to provide Python 3. Be sure not to get Python 2 or anything older than Python 3.6, which are no longer supported.

pip and venv are used to install packages into a temporary virtual environment. These are sometimes installed with python, but some Linux distributions can put these in separate packages (look for python3-pip and python3-venv).

Ruby

By default, Ruby is used to install kramdown-rfc. This is installed using the Ruby bundler, which also requires the Ruby package tool, gem.

The gem tool is often installed alongside Ruby, but you might need to install bundler separately (look for ruby-bundler).

You can pass NO_RUBY=true as an argument to make or export an environment variable with that value to disable this feature.

mmark

If you use mmark for markdown (i.e., files starting with %%%), you will need to install and manage an mmark installation.

Binaries for mmark is available from their releases and Mac users can use homebrew (brew install mmark).

npm

If you use dependencies such as aasvg, you need to have NodeJS and npm installed.

If npm is installed and your project has a package.json, then running make will automatically call npm to install the dependencies.

You can create the package.json by running npm, for example:

$ npm i -save aasvg
$ git add package.json
$ git commit