How to get started with mill from the command line

[DieBauer]

Hi, I want to start using Mill, however I couldn't find how to get the latest version and start using that from the CLI.

I see the website dives immediately into examples and why you want to use it, but nowhere a one-liner like brew install mill or sdk install mill or curl ....

How should I get this tool?

[lefou]

The best way to get started is to download the bootstrap script. I recommend to use lefou/millw, since it also runs on Windows and automatically scans for updates if there is no explicit version configured. It will download and run Mill for you. You can either keep it local to your project or install it into your personal bin folder.

So in short, either:

curl -L https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill/releases/download/0.11.11/0.11.11 > mill && chmod +x mill

or

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lefou/millw/0.4.12/millw > mill && chmod +x mill

If you are on Windows, you can use the batch script

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lefou/millw/0.4.11/millw.bat > mill.bat

or the power shell script

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lefou/millw/0.4.11/millw.ps1 > mill.ps

If you find the documentation not clear enough or have some idea how to improve it, feel free to open a pull request.