Liberica NIK 23.1.4+1 (21.0.4+9) Installation Guide

Liberica NIK 23.1.4 is installed to the /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit/liberica-vm-23.1.4-openjdk21/ directory, or another directory with a similar name in /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit, depending on the selected version of the JDK and package type (core, standard, or full). You can use the $NIK_HOME environment variable to store the path to the installed package: /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit/liberica-vm-23.1.4-openjdk21/Contents/Home/.

To uninstall Liberica NIK, simply remove its directory and unset the related environmental variables.

Except the Core version (which comes bundled with native image plugin and does not allow the installation of additional components), all packages of Liberica Native Image Kit contain a component updater called gu. You can use it to install or update Liberica NIK plugins or add support for additional languages in the distribution.

Open the terminal and type:

You’ll see a list of available languages:

Execute $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install [language] to install a specific language. For example, $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install python.

This can be also executed manually:

If Liberica Native Image Kit was installed in /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit or another location requiring root privileges, you might have to use sudo to perform administrative tasks, such as installing additional components or rebuilding the images.

xcode is required for Liberica Native Image Kit. Install the necessary tools with the following command:

Download either .rpm or .deb package.

Install the package using the appropriate package manager. See the example for Apt:

Or for an RPM-base system:

The package is installed to /opt/bellsoft/liberica-vm-23.1.4-openjdk21/.

For scripting purposes, we recommend adding the ${NIK_HOME} environment variable that points to your Liberica Native Image Kit installation directory.

To install Liberica NIK, download the .tar.gz package.

Unpack it with the following command.

This will unpack Liberica NIK to the selected directory. Either add $INSTALL_DIR/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk21-23.1.4/bin to $PATH, or remember $INSTALL_DIR/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk21-23.1.4 as the $NIK_HOME environment variable.

To uninstall Liberica NIK, simply remove this directory and unset the related environmental variables.

Open the terminal and type:

You’ll see a list of available languages:

Execute $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install [language] to install a specific language. For example, $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install python.

This can be also executed manually:

If Liberica Native Image Kit was installed via a package manager or in a location requiring root privileges, you might have to use sudo to perform administrative tasks, such as installing additional components or rebuilding the images.

Several libraries are required for Liberica Native Image Kit on Linux systems. Install these libraries on Debian-based systems with the following command:

Installed components also have additional libraries dependencies, such as Truffleruby depends on libssl-dev.

You can use a similar command to install dependencies on rpm-based systems. See this example for CentOS:

Other types of Linux systems may require different packages.

Download the .dmg package.

Install the package using the appropriate package manager. See our example for Apt:

The package is installed to /opt/bellsoft/liberica-vm-23.1.4-openjdk21/.

For scripting purposes, we recommend adding the ${NIK_HOME} environment variable which would point to your Liberica Native Image Kit installation directory.

To install Liberica NIK, download the .tar.gz package.

Unpack it with the following command.

This will unpack Liberica NIK to the selected directory. Either add $INSTALL_DIR/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk21-23.1.4/bin to $PATH, or remember $INSTALL_DIR/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk21-23.1.4 as the $NIK_HOME environment variable.

To uninstall Liberica NIK, simply remove this directory and unset the related environmental variables.

Open the terminal and type:

You’ll see a list of available languages:

Execute $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install [language] to install a specific language. For example, $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install python.

This can be also executed manually:

If Liberica Native Image Kit was installed via a package manager or in a location requiring root privileges, you might have to use sudo to perform administrative tasks, such as installing additional components or rebuilding the images.

Several libraries are required for Liberica Native Image Kit on Alpine Linux. Install these libraries with the following command:

Installed components also have additional libraries dependencies, such as Truffleruby depends on openssl-dev.

If you want to install Liberica NIK silently, open the command line and run the following command:

Liberica NIK is installed to the C:\Program Files\BellSoft\LibericaNIK-23-OpenJDK-21 directory by default. For scripting purposes, we recommend adding the $NIK_HOME environment variable that points to your Liberica Native Image Kit installation directory.

To install Liberica NIK as a standalone package on your computer, download the .zip package file and unpack it to a folder. You can also use Windows PowerShell to download and unpack the zip file as follows:

This will unpack Liberica NIK to the current directory. Either add bin subdirectory to PATH, or remember this directory as the $NIK_HOME environment variable.

Open the command prompt and type:

You’ll see a list of available languages:

Execute "%NIK_HOME%\bin\gu.cmd" install [language] to install a specific language. For example, "%NIK_HOME%\bin\gu.cmd" install nodejs.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 with Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) 15 or later is required for Liberica Native Image Kit.

Start x64 Native Tools Command Prompt to allow native-image and other utilities to find development tools and work from command prompt.

To get the checksum of the downloaded file in the command-line, run the following command in Windows PowerShell. To run PowerShell, open the Start menu or press the Windows key + R, type powershell in the Run dialog box, and click OK.

To get the checksum of the downloaded file, use the following command.

To get the checksum of the downloaded file, use the following command. The installation file extension depends on the Linux version.