pmd/BUILDING.md

How to build PMD

PMD uses Maven and requires Java 9 for building.

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 !

Note: While Java 9 is required for building, running PMD only requires Java 7 (or Java 8 for Apex).

How to build the documentation?

cd docs
bundle install # once
bundle exec jekyll build

You'll find the built site in the directory _site/.

For more info, see README in docs directory.