Compiling Garage from source

Garage is a standard Rust project. First, you need rust and cargo. For instance on Debian:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y rustc cargo

You can also use Rustup to setup a Rust toolchain easily.

In addition, you will need a full C toolchain. On Debian-based distributions, it can be installed as follows:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Building from source from the Gitea repository

The primary location for Garage's source code is the Gitea repository, which contains all of the released versions as well as the code for the developpement of the next version.

Clone the repository and enter it as follows:

git clone https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage.git
cd garage

If you wish to build a specific version of Garage, check out the corresponding tag. For instance:

git tag  				# List available tags
git checkout v0.8.0		# Change v0.8.0 with the version you wish to build

Otherwise you will be building a developpement build from the main branch that includes all of the changes to be released in the next version. Be careful that such a build might be unstable or contain bugs, and could be incompatible with nodes that run stable versions of Garage.

Finally, build Garage with the following command:

cargo build --release

The binary built this way can now be found in target/release/garage. You may simply copy this binary to somewhere in your $PATH in order to have the garage command available in your shell, for instance:

sudo cp target/release/garage /usr/local/bin/garage

If you are planning to develop Garage, you might be interested in producing debug builds, which compile faster but run slower: this can be done by removing the --release flag, and the resulting build can then be found in target/debug/garage.

List of available Cargo feature flags

Garage supports a number of compilation options in the form of Cargo feature flags, which can be used to provide builds adapted to your system and your use case. To produce a build with a given set of features, invoke the cargo build command as follows:

# This will build the default feature set plus feature1, feature2 and feature3
cargo build --release --features feature1,feature2,feature3
# This will build ONLY feature1, feature2 and feature3
cargo build --release --no-default-features \
            --features feature1,feature2,feature3

The following feature flags are available in v0.8.0: