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Building from source

Please also see Installation for information about pre-built executables.

You will need to first install Go version 1.15 or higher: please see https://go.dev.

Miller license

Two-clause BSD license https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/master/LICENSE.txt.

From release tarball

  • Obtain mlr-i.j.k.tar.gz from https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/tags, replacing i.j.k with the desired release, e.g. 6.1.0.
  • tar zxvf mlr-i.j.k.tar.gz
  • cd mlr-i.j.k
  • cd go
  • make creates the ./mlr (or .\mlr.exe on Windows) executable
    • Without make: go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr
  • make check runs tests
    • Without make: go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/... and mlr regtest
  • make install installs the mlr executable and the mlr manpage
    • Without make: go install github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr will install to GOPATH/bin/mlr

From git clone

  • git clone https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
  • make/go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr as above

In case of problems

If you have any build errors, feel free to open an issue with "New Issue" at https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues.

Dependencies

Required external dependencies

These are necessary to produce the mlr executable.

  • Go version 1.15 or higher: please see https://go.dev
  • Others packaged within go.mod and go.sum which you don't need to deal with manually -- the Go build process handles them for us

Optional external dependencies

This documentation pageset is built using https://www.mkdocs.org/. Please see https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/docs/README.md for details.