build.md

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description: Building Neko from source

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Building From Source

This guide walks you through the process of setting up Neko on your local machine or server.

Start by cloning the Neko Git repository to your machine:

git clone https://github.com/m1k1o/neko.git
cd neko

Building the Frontend {#frontend}

Prerequisites for building the frontend:

• node.js and npm

Navigate to the client directory and install the dependencies:

cd client;
npm install;
npm run build;

The npm run build command will create a production build of the frontend in the client/build directory.

Building the Server {#server}

Prerequisites for building the server:

• go (version 1.18 or higher)

• Dependencies for building the server:

  sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libxtst-dev libgtk-3-dev libxcvt-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
  

Navigate to the server directory and build the server:

cd server;
./build;

This will create a binary file named neko in the bin directory along with plugins that were built with the server.