infer_clone/INSTALL.md

Install Infer

We provide pre-built Infer binaries for Linux and MacOS. If you just wish to use Infer, and are not interested in making contributions to it, then these binaries are all you need. Otherwise, if you wish to compile Infer, here are also instructions to do so, depending on your operating system.

Installing Infer from binaries is described in the Infer's getting started page.

The rest of this document describes how to install Infer from source on different platforms.

Download the Infer repository

git clone https://github.com/facebook/infer.git

To analyse C and Objective-C, Infer requires clang and the facebook-clang-plugin. If you wish to analyse only Java/Android code, then you could skip these dependencies. Details below.

MacOS X

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• opam

Requirements for the Java analysis

• Java <= 1.7
• Android dev environment setup for analysis of Android apps.

Requirements for the C/Objective-C analysis

• XCode <= 6.3, >= 6.1
• clang (in XCode command line tools. You can install them with the command xcode-select --install)

Installation instructions

Install the OCaml dependencies:

opam init --comp=4.01.0  # (answer 'y' to the question)
eval `opam config env`
opam install extlib.1.5.4 atdgen.1.6.0 javalib.2.3.1 sawja.1.5.1

If you do not require support for the C/Objective-C analysis in Infer, and only wish to analyse Java files, continue with these instructions. By the way, Java 1.8 is not supported.

cd infer
make -C infer java
export PATH=`pwd`/infer/bin:$PATH

To compile support for both Java and C/Objective-C, do this instead.

cd infer
./update-fcp.sh && ../facebook-clang-plugin/clang/setup.sh && ./compile-fcp.sh # go have a coffee :)
make -C infer
export PATH=`pwd`/infer/bin:$PATH

Linux

Requirements

• Python 2.7

Installation instructions

These instructions were tested on Linux 64 bits on the following distributions: Debian 7, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS.

Install the OCaml dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git openjdk-7-jdk m4 zlib1g-dev python-software-properties build-essential libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev unzip
wget https://github.com/ocaml/opam/releases/download/1.2.2/opam-1.2.2-x86_64-Linux -O opam
chmod +x opam
./opam init --comp=4.01.0 #(then say 'y' to the final question)
eval `./opam config env`
./opam install extlib.1.5.4 atdgen.1.6.0 javalib.2.3.1 sawja.1.5.1 #(then say 'y' to the question)

If you do not require support for the C/Objective-C analysis in Infer, and only wish to analyse Java files, continue with these instructions. By the way, Java 1.8 is not supported.

cd infer
make -C infer java
export PATH=`pwd`/infer/bin:$PATH

To compile support for both Java and C/Objective-C, do this instead. This assumes that gcc >= 4.7.2 is already installed on your system. If your distribution is Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, you can install gcc-4.8 and g++-4.8. Follow the following instructions to do that. You may skip this step in other distributions with a recent enough version of gcc, for instance Debian 7.

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8

Then continue with:

cd infer
./update-fcp.sh
../facebook-clang-plugin/clang/setup.sh  # go have a coffee :)
./compile-fcp.sh
make -C infer
export PATH=`pwd`/infer/bin:$PATH