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Installing YS

YS has 3 main things you might want to install:

  1. The ys compiler, loader and runner command.
  2. The libyamlscript.so shared library needed by a YS loader library for your particular programming language.
  3. A YS loader library for your particular programming language, like Python, Rust, NodeJS, etc.

Quick Install of ys and libyamlscript🔗

You can install both ys and libyamlscript with a single CLI command, where:

  • VERSION defaults to the latest YS version.
  • PREFIX defaults to $HOME/.local.
  • LIB=1 means only install the shared library.
  • BIN=1 means only install the ys binary.

Examples: 

$ curl https://yamlscript.org/install | bash
$ curl https://yamlscript.org/install | VERSION=0.1.93 bash
$ curl https://yamlscript.org/install | VERSION=0.1.93 LIB=1 bash
$ curl https://yamlscript.org/install | PREFIX=/tmp/yamlscript bash

For the ys command you'll need to have PREFIX/bin in your PATH, but the install script will tell you that.

For libyamlscript, unless you use the default PREFIX you'll need to add PREFIX/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and export that variable.

An even shorter command to install ys

$ curl -s https://getys.org/ys | bash

You can use all the same options as above (before bash).

Download and Install🔗

All the binary pre-built release files are here  External link .

  • Download the appropriate release file.
  • Expand the file with $ tar xf <release-file>.
  • Use cd to enter the release directory.
  • Run make install or make install PREFIX=....
  • Or just copy the binary file to the place where you want it.

Build a Release from Source🔗

You can also easily build and install ys and libyamlscript from source:

  • Download the "Source code" release file.
  • Expand the file with $ tar xf <release-file>.
  • Use cd to enter the release directory.
  • Run make install or make install PREFIX=....

This will take a few minutes but it requires no dependencies besides bash, make and curl.

Note

On Linux it also requires the libz-dev package.

Install a YS Loader Library🔗

YS loader libraries are intended to be a drop in replacement for your current YAML loader.

YS loader libraries are currently available for these programming languages:

Install the library you want using the normal library installer for your language. Then install the matching version of the libyamlscript shared library as described above.

Note

Currently when you install a YS loader library for your particular programming language you must also install the libyamlscript shared library of the exact same version. Fortunately this is simple.