Building the compiler

Make sure you have Maven and at least Java 8 installed. If you don’t already have them, use a system specific package manager like apt-get or brew.

Checkout the git repository, switch into the checkout and run:

At the end of the build output you will see a line similar to the one below, but with different version numbers.

This shows that ClojureScript 1.7.164 has been built, and is installed in your local Maven repo. To use it, specify your ClojureScript dependency as [org.clojure/clojurescript "1.7.164"] (but with the version number that you built).