pmd/BUILDING.md

How to build PMD

PMD uses Maven.

You'll need to have a ~/.m2/toolchains.xml file setup with jdk 1.7 and jdk 1.8 (for some features in pmd). See maven toolchains. A example file can be found here: example-toolchains.xml.

PMD uses the maven wrapper, so you can simply build PMD as following:

• ./mvnw clean verify (on Unix-like platform such as Linux and Mac OS X)
• mvnw.cmd clean verify (on Windows)

This will create the zip files in the directory pmd-dist/target:

cd pmd-dist/target
ls *.zip

That's all !

How to build the documentation (maven site)?

Building the maven site is done with the following commands:

./mvnw clean install -DskipTests=true
./mvnw install site site:stage -Psite

You'll find the built site in the directory target/staging/.