Unless it is absolutely necessary to build PhantomJS from source, it is highly recommended to download and install the ready-made binary package instead.
PhantomJS is still a web browser, albeit headless. Thus, building it from source takes a long time (mainly due to thousands of files in the WebKit module). Estimated build time for a 4-core system is 30 minutes.
First, install the development packages of the following tools and libraries: GNU C++ compiler, bison, flex, gperf, Perl, Ruby, SQLite, FreeType, Fontconfig, OpenSSL, and ICU. The actual package names may vary from one distribution to another.
On Debian-based distro (tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 7.0), run:
sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ flex bison gperf ruby perl \ libsqlite3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libicu-dev libfreetype6 libssl-dev \ libpng-dev libjpeg-dev python libx11-dev libxext-dev
Note: It is recommend also to install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
package.
On Fedora-based distro (tested on CentOS 6), run:
sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ make flex bison gperf ruby \ openssl-devel freetype-devel fontconfig-devel libicu-devel sqlite-devel \ libpng-devel libjpeg-devel
Supported toolchains: MSVC2012
and MSVC2013
.
You must have Perl, Python, Ruby, and Git on PATH
. Also, note that Git comes with its own version of perl.exe
. If you have both Git and a separate Perl installation in your PATH, please make sure that you separate Perl install’s bin
folder comes before the git’s bin
folder in your PATH.
Please also add the folder <phantomjs_path>\src\qt\3rdparty\gnuwin32\bin
to your PATH
, as required tools such as bison
, flex
, and gperf
will not be found otherwise.
Example:
SET PATH=%CD%\src\qt\3rdparty\gnuwin32\bin;%PATH%
Run the build script from Visual Studio Command Prompt.
Tip: Enabling incremental linking will make the linkage process faster.
Build PhantomJS from the FreeBSD Ports Collection: svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/lang/phantomjs/
To obtain the code using Git from the official repository github.com/ariya/phantomjs:
git clone git:https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git cd phantomjs git checkout 2.1.1 git submodule init git submodule update
From the code checkout:
python build.py
This will take some time. Once it is completed, the executable will be available under the bin
subdirectory.
Tip: If the compilation process is interrupted, once started again, the build.py
script will continue where left off.