Installation

Obtaining lynkctl

lynkctl is distributed directly by Interlynk. Contact Interlynk to receive the binary for your operating system and CPU architecture. Once you have it, place it on your PATH — for example, in /usr/local/bin.

Requirements

lynkctl is a self-contained binary. It needs additional tooling only when analysing certain build systems:

When analysing	You also need
GNU Make projects	GNU Make 3.81 or newer, on PATH
CMake projects	CMake 3.14 or newer, and a build tree that has already been configured so that CMake File API replies exist
IAR Embedded Workbench projects	No extra tooling
Package manifest projects (npm, Python, Go, Maven, Gradle, Cargo, RubyGems, PHP, .NET)	No extra tooling — lynkctl reads the manifests and lockfiles directly. The package manager itself does not need to be installed.

No compiler or target toolchain is required. lynkctl reads build definitions and manifests; it does not build the project.

Verify the Installation

lynkctl version

This prints the build version of lynkctl.

The OSS-Index Database

To identify vendored open-source code, lynkctl uses a local OSS-index database. Download it before your first generate run:

lynkctl db download

The download is roughly 300 MB. See OSS-Index Database for cache locations, refreshing, and air-gapped use.

If you do not need vendored open-source identification, you can skip the database and pass --no-oss-index to generate.