build.md

Building binaries

On your host OS

Dependencies: Go 1.19

You'll have to install a golang version that matches the go.mod, and ensure that other package dependencies are installed (see the dockerfile for the dependencies)

# Generate binary asset files from the cowfiles
./build/build_assets.sh

# Finally, build the pokesay tool
go build pokesay.go

In docker

Dependencies: docker

In order to re/build the binaries from scratch, along with all the cowfile conversion, use the handy Makefile tasks

make -C build build/docker build/assets build/release

This will produce 4 executable bin files inside the build/bin directory, and a heap of binary asset files in build/assets.