SourceBuild

An overview on building from source is available in the Get Started page. This page contains a more detailed and considered approach for those interested.

en is developed on NixOS and builds are tested on both Debian and Alpine, meaning en should compile and run on both glibc and musl systems.

Dependencies

A Rust toolchain is required to build en itself and can be installed through rustup.

For compiling the en dependencies, you will also need a C toolchain: a compiler and a libc (e.g. gcc + glibc or clang + musl), which may already be installed on your system.

For the two tested systems, all you need are the following packages:

You may also need curl, git and ca-certificates depending on how you will fetch the source code.

Building from a Git clone

Aside from the cargo install approach described in GetStarted, you can alternatively fetch the code yourself using Git, which allows you to inspect and change it before compiling:

git clone -b v0.4.0-alpha --single-branch https://codeberg.org/jutty/en
cd en
cargo build --locked --release

In this case, the en binary will be in target/release/en.

Runnable examples

You can find the exact commands used to test installation on both systems in the containers directory of the en source repository.