How To: Getting and Building from Source

If you’d like to contribute to Lift, or simply want to keep up with the latest and greatest additions, here are some instructions for building it on your own.

Setting up your Environment

Make sure you have Apache Maven installed and on your $PATH

Generally speaking, it helps to make sure that maven is allocated plenty of memory – this can be done by passing the following environment variables:

export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1024m"

Lift will build with Java 1.5 or greater, and requires Maven 2.0.9 or more.

Gitting the Source

Lift hosts its code on GitHub – in order to clone from the public URL, run:

git clone git://github.com/dpp/liftweb.git

Running the Build

When you have cloned Lift to your local computer move into the directory and run the following command to install Lift into your local Maven repository ( ~/.m2 )

mvn install

If you want to generate Scala API documentation at the same time, run:

mvn install scala:doc