Build instructions

[rkeene]

No build instructions for this software. It would be helpful to know how to build it from the release tarball.

[kylecarbs]

This is planned. For now you can do:

yarn
yarn task build:server:binary

It should output to packages/server/cli-[platform]

[grant]

Also use node >=8 and <9.

[muojp]

• Required (Ubuntu) packages: https://github.com/codercom/code-server/blob/master/.travis.yml#L10
• If you're using stock Node.js/npm on some distros, you would need to perform npm install -g npm to fetch newer npm which has npx binary with it.

[bketelsen]

be sure that the node version you have installed has an appropriate release for nexe/nexe, I had node 8.15.1, but there's only 8.15.0 in nexe, so I downgraded node to get this to build.

[nhooyr]

Dockerfile is available for those of you who want to dev for linux.

[nhooyr]

So lets just document the existence of the Dockerfile and for other platforms, people can look at the .travis.yml.

[uddmorningsun]

I have tried in CentOS, record in #23 (comment) , hope that help others

[tvarwig]

After I run yarn task build:server:binary everything builds successfully from what I can see but there are no binaries in packages/server/cli- there are no cli directories under packages/server

[activatedgeek]

I was able to get a full build working however on running I get the following error:

Error: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found`.

I installed the latest library which contains that version but is on a non-standard path. I updated LD_LIBRARY_PATH but to no effect. Any suggestions?

[activatedgeek]

I actually realized that I was building from master. When I built from the latest tag, it worked. Thanks!

[bpmct]

Is there no way to build from master and get a binary?

[NGTmeaty]

I believe there's a yarn task to build and get a binary.

I'd reference our Dockerfile.

[wongxingjun]

I was able to get a full build working however on running I get the following error:

Error: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found`.

I installed the latest library which contains that version but is on a non-standard path. I updated LD_LIBRARY_PATH but to no effect. Any suggestions?

I met the same problem recently, build instructions are needed for users to run this software on some old versions of OSes.

[nol166]

We are adding better documentation to our April to-do list. Sorry it has taken so long 🤕

[MichaelDesantis]

A new issue was opened on this #417

[code-asher]

Closing in favor of #417.

[qinzehua]

I believe there's a yarn task to build and get a binary.

I'd reference our Dockerfile.

hi, the Dockerfile is missing, can you share it?

[code-asher]

We no longer have a Dockerfile that builds code-server but we have documentation for building here: https://github.com/coder/code-server/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md#build

[code-asher]

If you are looking for our release image though (it takes an already-built code-server as input) that can be found here: https://github.com/coder/code-server/blob/main/ci/release-image/Dockerfile

[qinzehua]

We no longer have a Dockerfile that builds code-server but we have documentation for building here: https://github.com/coder/code-server/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md#build

I am follow the steps to do building.
When run node . in release folder. Got error Error: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /home/cddev/Downloads/code-server-4.0.1/release/node_modules/argon2/lib/binding/napi-v3/argon2.node)

My centos 7 mechine's GLIBC version is 2.17. So i attempt to upgrade GLIBC to 2.25. But fail.
Is there any other way to resolve the GLIBC_2.25 error?

[jsjoeio]

What happens if you run npm_config_build_from_source=true node . in the release folder? see here

[codegzx]

We no longer have a Dockerfile that builds code-server but we have documentation for building here: https://github.com/coder/code-server/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md#build

I am follow the steps to do building. When run node . in release folder. Got error Error: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /home/cddev/Downloads/code-server-4.0.1/release/node_modules/argon2/lib/binding/napi-v3/argon2.node)

My centos 7 mechine's GLIBC version is 2.17. So i attempt to upgrade GLIBC to 2.25. But fail. Is there any other way to resolve the GLIBC_2.25 error?

I meet the same problem, can you tell me how do you fix it?