These instructions are for installing the development version of Standard ML of New Jersey (SML/NJ) on Unix and Unix-like operating systems (including Linux and macOS).

  1. clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/smlnj/smlnj.git

  1. cd to the cloned repository and fetch the boot files using curl or wget.

       cd smlnj
   curl -O https://smlnj.org/dist/working/2024.1/boot.amd64-unix.tgz

    We plan to incorporate this step into the [build.sh](build.sh) script in the future.

  2. build the installation

   ./build.sh

Use build.sh -h to see the list of options accepted by the build script.

+ As before, you can modify the [config/targets](config/targets) file to add/remove components from the build.

After successful running of the [build.sh](build.sh) script, bin/sml will be the interactive system.