Installation

Prerequisites

• Rust toolchain (1.70 or later)
• Cargo package manager

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/magi8101/openlexer.git
cd openlexer
cargo build --release

The binary will be at target/release/openlexer (or openlexer.exe on Windows).

Install via Cargo

cargo install --path .

This installs openlexer to ~/.cargo/bin/.

Verify Installation

openlexer --version
openlexer --help

WebAssembly Build

To build for web browsers:

cargo install wasm-pack
wasm-pack build --target web

The output will be in the pkg/ directory.

Platform Notes

Windows

No additional dependencies required. The MSVC toolchain is recommended.

Linux

Ensure build-essential or equivalent is installed for linking.

macOS

Xcode command line tools must be installed:

xcode-select --install