Build From Source

Building from source #

Wow, you’re a real chad! Congrats on being so cool.

You may wish to check out the source before or after compiling it:

Gitlab

Instructions #

The build process is automated in a CI build inside a Ubuntu container; you can check out the build file, /.woodpecker/.build.yml in the root directory of the repo.

I recommend not using the master branch, because I develop directly on it. release-X.Y.Z branches are stable builds, master may or may not be.

Dependencies #

Build commands # 

# Git clone
git clone https://gitlab.com/offline-twitter/twitter_offline_engine.git
cd twitter_offline_engine/cmd

# Compile it with `go build`
go build -ldflags="-s -w -X gitlab.com/offline-twitter/twitter_offline_engine/internal/webserver.use_embedded=true" ./cmd/twitter

# Set it as executable
chmod +x twitter
./twitter

You’ll get a standalone, statically-linked binary called twitter (or twitter.exe on Windows), which you can copy onto anywhere in your PATH. I put it in /usr/local/bin, but you can put it somewhere else if you like.

The compiler flag -X [...]/use_embedded=true makes the compiler embed the web UI’s static files and template files in the output binary, rather than serving them live from disk. Unless you’re making a development build, this is recommended, in order to avoid weird path errors.