Install Rust Dependency

You can download the prebuilt binary from GitHub or compile the binary locally on your own.

Compile Rust Binary Locally

Refer to https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install if you haven't installed Rust on your system.

Assuming Rust has already been installed on your system, specifically, cargo executable exists, you can have several ways to compile the binary:

  • Use this helper function :call clap#installer#build_maple() within Vim/NeoVim.

  • Run make under the clap plugin directory (macOS and Linux).

  • Run the cargo command on your own:

    cd path/to/vim-clap

# Compile the release build, you can find the compiled executable at target/release/maple.
cargo build --release

Compile Rust binary via Docker (Linux Only)

If you run into the libssl error when using the prebuilt binary from GitHub release, you can try building a static Rust binary:

$ cd path/to/vim-clap
$ docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd)":/volume clux/muslrust cargo build --profile production --locked
$ cp target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/production/maple bin/maple
# See if it really works
$ ./bin/maple version

Download Prebuilt binary

The prebuilt binary is available from GitHub release. You can call :call clap#installer#download_binary() in Vim/NeoVim, or do it manually as follows.

Quick Downloader

The scripts to download the prebuilt binary quickly are provided out of the box. The downloaded executable can be found at bin/maple on success.

  • Unix: $ bash install.sh
  • Windows: Run install.ps1 in the powershell.

Download Prebuilt Binary By Hand

  1. Download the binary from the latest release https://github.com/liuchengxu/vim-clap/releases according to your system.
  2. Rename the downloaded binary to:
    • Unix: maple
    • Windows: maple.exe
  3. Move maple/maple.exe to bin directory. Don't forget to assign execute permission to maple via chmod a+x bin/maple if you are using the Unix system.