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At a project I work on, we needed PhantomJS to run from a Redhat Fedora 64 bit machine.

Since phantomJs is just released this week, I needed to build it myself.

I post this link to the binary in case it can benefit others.

PhantomJs 1.7.0 built on Linux Redhat Fedora 64 bit

PhantomJS is a fantastic tool for automating tests, since it is a headless browser which we wrapped in our automation framework to run javascript based tests very fast and easily.

I followed the build instructions (the instructions described for Amazon EC2 also worked on the fedora I am running).

sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ make git openssl-devel freetype-devel fontconfig-devel
git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
cd phantomjs
git checkout 1.7
./build.sh --jobs 1

#(added step below by me)
sudo yum install upx

After finishing the build, run deploy/package.sh which creates PhantomJS binary tarball that can be moved around and/or extracted to a different location. This is the correct way to install the built binary into an arbitrary directory, i.e. do not simply copy the executable as it won't work.

The link I posted is the actual outcome of ./deploy/package.sh

For other operating systems, you could probably just get the binary at the official PhantomJs download page.

This entry was posted by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on Friday, September 28th, 2012 at 09:54 (GMT-1) and is filed under Code, Continous integration, Testing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.