Installation

clip is written in C++. You can either install a binary release or compile from source. Once the installation is complete, you will have a clip binary on your system.

You can find the complete source code on Github

Compile from source

To build clip, you need an up-to-date C++ compiler, cmake, libharfbuzz and libfreetype. To install these dependencies, run the following command:

# Ubuntu
$ apt-get install cmake libfreetype6-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libcairo2-dev libfmt-dev

# Fedora
$ dnf install cmake freetype-devel harfbuzz-devel fribidi-devel cairo-devel fmt-devel

# OSX
$ brew install cmake freetype harfbuzz fribidi cairo cppformat

To compile clip, Run:

$ git clone [email protected]:asmuth/clip.git
$ cd clip
$ cmake .
$ make -j

To install the clip binary into your system, run make install:

$ make install

To run the test suite, run make test:

$ make test