Hello, I decided to start learning how veilid works. So the first thought was to get veilid-server running on my main machine, which is a macbook pro m1 running macos. I’m writing this as a guide to myself in the future in case I need to do this again, but feel free to follow it in case it helps.
So, first thing is to clone the veilid repository with the following commands:
$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilid.git
$ cd veilid
After that, I run cargo build -p veilid-server but that didn’t work right away, turns out my rust version was a little out-of-date. So, the command to get it updated is:
$ rustup update
If you don’t have rust installed yet, you can do it following rust’s guide here.
After updating rust, my build was still failing, turns out I had to install a couple more dependencies using brew:
$ brew install protobuf capnp
And now it is time to give veilid-server build a try:
$ cargo build -p veilid-server
Once the build finishes your binary will be at target/debug/veilid-server, happy hacking!
Ps.: To build veilid-cli you just have to do cargo build -p veilid-cli