Lite XL Plugin Manager (lpm)

A standalone binary that provides an easy way of installing, and uninstalling plugins from lite-xl, as well as different version of lite-xl.

Can be used by a package manager plugin that works from inside the editor and calls this binary.

Also contains a plugin_manager.lua plugin to integrate the binary with lite-xl in the form of an easy-to-use GUI.

By default in releases, lpm will automatically consume the manifest.json in the latest branch of this repository, which corresponds to the most recent versioned release.

As of Lite XL version 3, lpm, along with the plugin_manager and welcome plugins will be bundled with all official releases.

Conforms to SCPS3.

Status

lpm 1.0 has been just released, and so may still contain bugs, but is generally feature-complete.

Specification

For details about the manifest.json files that lpm consumes, see here.

Installing

Windows

On Windows, the best way to start, especially if you're used to a visual interface is to simply pull lpm, and use it to install plugin_manager, which will give you a graphical plugin manager inside Lite XL that can be accessed with the Plugin Manager: Show command (ctrl+shift+p).

To get started, open a PowerShell terminal, and run the following:

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager/releases/download/latest/lpm.x86_64-windows.exe" -OutFile "lpm.exe"
.\lpm.exe install plugin_manager --assume-yes
Remove-Item lpm.exe

This should install lpm and install the GUI. If you already had Lite XL open, please restart it (ctrl+alt+r).

Linux + Mac

The fastest way to get started with lpm is to simply pull a release.

wget https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager/releases/download/latest/lpm.x86_64-linux -O lpm && chmod +x lpm

If you want to get the GUI version installed with lite-xl, you can tell lpm to install plugin_manager, which will allow you to access Plugin Manager: Show in the command palette in lite-xl.

./lpm install plugin_manager --assume-yes

Compilation

If you have a C compiler, and git, and want to compile from scratch, you can do:

git clone https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager.git \
  --shallow-submodules --recurse-submodules && cd lite-xl-plugin-manager &&\
  ./build.sh -DLPM_STATIC && ./lpm

If you want to build it quickly, and have the right modules installed, you can do:

./build.sh -lgit2 -lzip -llua -lm -lmbedtls -lmbedx509 -lmbedcrypto -lz -DLPM_STATIC

gcc src/lpm.c lib/microtar/src/microtar.c -Ilib/microtar/src -lz -lgit2 \
  -lzip -llua -lm -lmbedtls -lmbedx509 -lmbedcrypto -o lpm

CI is enabled on this repository, so you can grab Windows and Linux builds from the continuous release page, which is a nightly, or the latest release page, which holds the most recent released version.

There are also tagged releases, for specified versions.

You can get a feel for how to use lpm by typing ./lpm --help.

You can also use scoop to grab lpm:

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager/refs/heads/master/lite-xl-plugin-manager.json

Please note, that meson is not necessarily the best way to compile lpm. If you have troubles with it, please do consider using the build.sh script.

Supporting Libraries / Dependencies

As seen in the lib folder, the following external libraries are used to build lpm as git submodules:

lua (core program written in)
mbedtls (https/SSL support)
libgit2 (accessing git repositories directly)
libz (supporting library for everything)
libzip (for unpacking .zip files)
libmicrotar (for unpacking .tar.gz files)

To build, lpm only requires a C compiler. To run the underlying build process for mbedtls and libgit2, cmake is also required.

Supported Platforms

lpm should work on all platforms lite-xl works on; but releases are offered for the following:

Windows x86_64
Linux x86_64
Linux aarch64
MacOS x86_64
MacOS aarch64
Android 8.0+ x86_64
Android 8.0+ x86
Android 8.0+ aarch64
Android 8.0+ armv7a

Experimental support (i.e. doesn't work) exists for the following platforms:

Linux riscv64

Use in CI

To make pre-fab lite builds, you can easily use lpm in CI. If you had a linux build container, you could do something like:

curl https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-plugin-manager/releases/download/v0.1/lpm.x86_64-linux > lpm
export LITE_USERDIR=lite-xl/data && export LPM_CACHE=/tmp/cache
./lpm add https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-plugin-manager && ./lpm install plugin_manager lsp

Usage

lpm install aligncarets
lpm uninstall aligncarets

lpm --help

Building & Running

Linux & MacOS & Windows MSYS

./build.sh clean && ./build.sh -DLPM_STATIC && ./lpm

Linux -> Windows

./build.sh clean && HOSTCC=gcc CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc AR=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-ar WINDRES=x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres \
CMAKE_DEFAULT_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM=NEVER\ -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=NEVER -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=NEVER -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/share/mingw-w64/include"\
  GIT2_CONFIGURE="-DDLLTOOL=x86_64-w64-mingw32-dlltool" ./build.sh -DLPM_STATIC -DLPM_VERSION='"'$VERSION-x86_64-windows-`git rev-parse --short HEAD`'"'

Tests

To run the test suite, you can use lpm to execute the test by doing ./lpm test t/run.lua. use FAST=1 ./lpm test t/run.lua to avoid the costs of tearing down and building up suites each time.

Extra Features

Bottles

Extra Fields

addons.files.extra.chmod_executable

An array of files to be marked as executable (after extraction, if applicable).

Bugs

If you find a bug, please create an issue with the following information:

Your operating system.
The commit or version of LPM you're using (lpm --version for releases).
The exact steps to reproduce in LPM invocations, if possible from a fresh LPM install (targeting an empty folder with --userdir).

lite-xl / lite-xl-plugin-manager