tree-sitter-natives

Cross-compiled tree-sitter native libraries for all major desktop platforms + WASM, with all officially supported language grammars bundled into a single monolithic library.

Supported Platforms

Platform	Static (.a/.lib)	Shared (.so/.dylib/.dll)
Linux x86_64	✓	✓
Linux aarch64	✓	✓
macOS x86_64	✓	✓
macOS aarch64	✓	✓
Windows x86_64	✓	✓
Windows aarch64	✓	✓
WASM (web-tree-sitter)	—	✓

Included Grammars

Tier 1 (Most Popular)

Bash, C, C++, C#, CSS, Go, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, Python, Regex, Ruby, Rust, Scala, SQL, TOML, TypeScript, YAML

Tier 2 (Broadly Used)

CMake, Dockerfile, Elixir, Erlang, Haskell, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Make, OCaml, PHP, R, Swift, Vim, XML, Zig

Release Artifacts

Each tagged release publishes:

Archive	Contents
tree-sitter-<platform>.tar.gz	libtree_sitter_all.{a,so,dylib} or .lib/.dll
tree-sitter-wasm.tar.gz	tree-sitter.js, tree-sitter.wasm, grammars/*.wasm
tree-sitter-queries.tar.gz	Per-language highlights.scm, locals.scm, etc.

Usage

These archives are consumed by a downstream Scala provider module that embeds them into fat JARs via sbt-multi-arch-release, enabling tree-sitter usage from:

• JVM — via Project Panama FFM (shared libraries)
• Scala Native — via @extern linking (static libraries)
• Scala.js — via web-tree-sitter facades (WASM)

Building Locally

Prerequisites

• Rust (stable)
• zig + cargo-zigbuild (Linux cross-compilation)
• cargo-xwin (Windows cross-compilation)
• Node.js + npm (WASM builds)
• Emscripten SDK (WASM grammar compilation)
• tree-sitter CLI (npm install -g tree-sitter-cli)

Desktop (native macOS only)

cargo build --release --manifest-path native/Cargo.toml

All 6 Desktop Targets (from macOS)

scripts/cross-all.sh

WASM

scripts/build-wasm.sh
scripts/collect-queries.sh

Adding a Grammar

1. Add the crate dependency to native/tree-sitter-all/Cargo.toml
2. Add the export_grammar! line to native/tree-sitter-all/src/lib.rs
3. Add the grammar name to the GRAMMARS array in scripts/build-wasm.sh
4. Add the grammar name to the GRAMMARS array in scripts/collect-queries.sh
5. Update the grammar count in ts_natives_grammar_count()
6. Update this README

License

Apache-2.0