build.md

How to build Backpack binaries from source code

This document will show you how to build binaries to use Backpack.

Requirements

Before proceeding ensure to have the following software installed:

• git
• GNU Make
• Go version > 1.15

On macOS you can use homebrew to install quickly the requirements:

brew install go make git

On most of Debian and Ubuntu-based OOS you can run:

apt update
apt install git make

Please follow this guide (pkg) or this guide (src) to install Go with the latest version, as both Debian and Ubuntu official repositories might provide an old version.

Building

First, we need to clone the repository and obtain the latest version of the source code.

git clone https://gitlab.com/Qm64/backpack.git
git checkout latest

Now we are ready to clean the builds, get the dependencies and compile the binaries.

cd backpack
make

The binary will be available in build/backpack

Installing

To install buildpack command, you can run:

make install

This will install it under your $GOBIN, which defaults to $GOPATH/bin and should be available in the $PATH.