For using Appkit from non-JVM languages (JS, Python, Ruby) GraalVM can be used (Community or Enterprise edition). It can be downloaded and installed on the computer where the App is supposed to run. Community edition should be enough for Ergo Appkit library.
First you need to download an archive with the latest
release of GraalVM (e.g.
graalvm-ce-darwin-amd64-19.2.1.tar.gz at the time of writing) for MacOS and
put the programs from it onto the $PATH.
$ cd <your/directory/with/downloaded/graal>
$ tar -zxf graalvm-ce-darwin-amd64-19.2.1.tar.gz
$ export GRAAL_HOME=<your/directory/with/downloaded/graal>/graalvm-ce-19.2.1/Contents/Home
$ export PATH=$PATH:${GRAAL_HOME}/binGraalVM comes with a package manager called gu that lets you install
additional languages (JavaScript comes with GraalVM). You will also need to
install the native-image tool. These all get downloaded from GitHub.
$ gu install native-image
$ gu install ruby
$ gu install python
$ gu install R
When you run java or js you'll get the GraalVM versions of those runtimes.
$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_232"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_232-20191009173705.graal.jdk8u-src-tar-gz-b07)
OpenJDK 64-Bit GraalVM CE 19.2.1 (build 25.232-b07-jvmci-19.2-b03, mixed mode)
$ js --version
GraalVM JavaScript (GraalVM CE Native 19.2.1)
Appkit is published, however, you can clone the whole repository build it and published locally in the Ivy repository.
$ git clone https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo-appkit.git
$ cd ergo-appkit
$ sbt publishLocal If you are working with Gradle/Maven, you might want to publish to your local Maven repository with
sbt publishM2
In case you need a fat JAR (or uber JAR), you can build it with
sbt clean assembly
and find it in the target/scala-* subfolder.