Building Ion Fusion

Prerequisites:

• Install a Java runtime, version 17 or later. We recommend Amazon Corretto.
  • This project builds for Java 8, but its Gradle tooling requires 17.
• Install Git.
• Ensure that java and git are on your shell's PATH.

Building from source should be straightforward:

git clone https://github.com/ion-fusion/fusion-java.git
cd fusion-java
./gradlew build

After a successful build, you'll have a basic SDK under sdk/build/install/ion-fusion-sdk. The notable artifacts within that directory are:

• bin/fusion is the fusion CLI
• docs/fusion.html is the documentation for the Ion Fusion language
• docs/javadoc/index.html is the documentation embedding Ion Fusion in your Java application
• lib holds the jars needed for embedding

To experiment with the CLI, add the bin to your path:

PATH=$PATH:$PWD/sdk/build/install/ion-fusion-sdk/bin
fusion help

That should give you an overview of the CLI's subcommands.

What's Next?

With the fusion CLI ready to go, you can follow the CLI tutorial and run some code!