jerryscript/docs/00.GETTING-STARTED.md
Csaba Osztrogonác 1bd1a36a81
Bump reference platform to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (#3037)
Ubuntu 14.04 reached its end of life on April 30m 2019.
Let's bump the reference to the latest LTS, which is 18.04.

Ubuntu 18.04 has newer Pylint and Cppcheck, the necessary
fixes and suppresses are also included in this PR.

JerryScript-DCO-1.0-Signed-off-by: Csaba Osztrogonác oszi@inf.u-szeged.hu
2020-03-30 12:26:56 +02:00

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## Setting up prerequisites
Currently, only Ubuntu 18.04+ is officially supported as primary development environment.
There are several dependencies, that should be installed manually. The following list is the absolute minimum for building:
- `gcc` or any C99-compliant compiler (native or cross, e.g., arm-none-eabi)
- `cmake` >= `2.8.12.2`
Several scripts and tools help the building and development process, thus it is recommended to have the following installed as well:
- `bash` >= `4.3.11`
- `cppcheck` >= `1.61`
- `vera++` >= `1.2.1`
- `python` >= `2.7.6`
```bash
sudo apt-get install gcc gcc-arm-none-eabi cmake cppcheck vera++ python
```
To make our scripts run correctly, several shell utilities should be available on the system:
- `awk`
- `bc`
- `find`
- `sed`
## Building JerryScript
**To build debug version for Linux**
```bash
python tools/build.py --debug
```
**To build debug version for Linux without LTO (Link Time Optimization)**
```bash
python tools/build.py --debug --lto=off
```
**To enable more verbose outputs for debugging**
```bash
tools/build.py --debug --logging=on --error-messages=on --line-info=on
```
**Add custom arguments to CMake**
```bash
python tools/build.py --cmake-param=CMAKE_PARAM
```
**Set a profile mode (ES5.1, subset of ES2015, minimal)**
```bash
python tools/build.py --profile=es5.1|es2015-subset|minimal
```
See also the related [README.md](https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript/blob/master/jerry-core/profiles/README.md).
**Use (compiler-default, external) libc**
The default libc is the compiler-default libc but you can use an external libc as well:
- compiler-default libc:
```bash
python tools/build.py
```
- external libc:
```bash
python tools/build.py --compile-flag="-nostdlib -I/path/to/ext-libc/include" --link-lib="ext-c"
```
**Add toolchain file**
The ```cmake``` dir already contains some usable toolchain files, which you can use in the following format:
```bash
python tools/build.py --toolchain=TOOLCHAIN
```
For example the cross-compile to RaspberryPi 2 is something like this:
```bash
python tools/build.py --toolchain=cmake/toolchain_linux_armv7l.cmake
```
**Use system memory allocator**
```bash
python tools/build.py --system-allocator=on
```
*Note*: System allocator is only supported on 32 bit systems.
**Enable 32bit compressed pointers**
```bash
python tools/build.py --cpointer-32bit=on
```
*Note*: There is no compression/decompression on 32 bit systems, if enabled.
**Change default heap size (512K)**
```bash
python tools/build.py --mem-heap=256
```
If you would like to use more than 512K, then you must enable the 32 bit compressed pointers.
```bash
python tools/build.py --cpointer-32bit=on --mem-heap=1024
```
*Note*: The heap size will be allocated statically at compile time, when JerryScript memory
allocator is used.
**To build with libfuzzer support**
```bash
CC=clang python tools/build.py --libfuzzer=on --compile-flag=-fsanitize=address --lto=off
```
Check the documentation of libfuzzer to get the runtime settings of the created fuzzer
binary: https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html.
**To get a list of all the available buildoptions for Linux**
```bash
python tools/build.py --help
```
## Checking patch
```bash
python tools/run-tests.py --precommit
```
### Running only one type of test
**To run build option tests**
```bash
python tools/run-tests.py --buildoption-test
```
**To run unittests**
```bash
python tools/run-tests.py --unittests
```
**To run jerry-tests**
```bash
python tools/run-tests.py --jerry-tests
```
**To run jerry-test-suite**
```bash
python tools/run-tests.py --jerry-test-suite
```
**To run signed-off check**
```bash
python tools/run-tests.py --check-signed-off
```
**To run cppcheck**
```bash
python tools/run-tests.py --check-cppcheck
```
**To run vera check**
```bash
python tools/run-tests.py --check-vera
```
**To get a list of all the available test options**
```bash
python tools/run-tests.py --help
```