Building

This page shows how to build bbs from source. You need Go 1.26 or later.

make            # or: go build ./cmd/bbs
make test
make install    # installs /usr/local/bin/bbs, and /etc/bbs/bbs.conf if there is none

bbs does not use cgo, so there is no C compiler to set up. Every database driver is built in: SQLite is modernc.org/sqlite, PostgreSQL is pgx, and MySQL and MariaDB are go-sql-driver.

go3270

bbs uses the D-Modem suite's fork of go3270, D-Modem/go3270 (Go module github.com/D-Modem/go3270), which adds 3270 query replies and graphics. While that repository is private, Go has to fetch it from GitHub with your own credentials:

export GOPRIVATE=github.com/D-Modem/*     # the Makefile sets this for you
git config --global url."git@github.com:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"   # or use a token

See also: Running, Development