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Version: 0.2.0

Building Drop OSS

Building Drop server for other platforms​

Unfortunately, we don't have the time or resources to build and debug our software for platforms other than x86-64 or arm64. However, we offer this guide as a way to get it running, at your own risk.

Prerequisites​

To compile:

  • Rust (stable)
  • Node.js v20
  • yarn (v1/legacy) package manager
  • git VCS
  • Docker

To run:

  • Docker

Building droplet​

droplet is a high-performance utility package for the Drop server. It's a napi.rs module, meaning it's written in Rust and then compiled to an NPM module.

Get started by cloning the droplet source code, and then enter the directory:

git clone https://github.com/Drop-OSS/droplet.git

Install the dependencies with yarn:

yarn

And then compile the package with the build script:

yarn build

Because we're building this locally, setup the yarn link so we can use this package while building the server:

yarn link

Building drop​

drop is the self hosted server. It's a Nuxt 3 project, but depends on the droplet package so isn't easily transportable.

Get started by cloning the drop source code, and then enter the directory:

git clone https://github.com/Drop-OSS/drop.git

Then, link your build droplet package:

yarn link "@drop/droplet"

Then, install dependencies:

yarn

Then, build the application:

yarn build

To package it into a Docker container, remove the build commands in the provided Dockerfile's build-system (yarn install and yarn build), and then build the Docker image:

docker build . -t drop

Building drop-app (desktop companion app)​

To build drop-app, run:

git clone https://github.com/Drop-OSS/drop-app.git
cd drop-app
git checkout main
yarn
yarn tauri build

If the command is successful, you can find the generated assets in: src-tauri/target/release/bundle. You can find the AppImage in the appimage folder.

If the yarn tauri build command fails, you can try adding --verbose to get the error details.

If you get this type of error:

ERROR: Strip call failed: /tmp/appimage_extracted_5a27dadc81a3abf452534fdbee9c58ee/usr/bin/strip: Drop Desktop Client.AppDir/usr/lib/libSvtAv1Enc.so.3: unknown type [0x13] section `.relr.dyn'
/tmp/appimage_extracted_5a27dadc81a3abf452534fdbee9c58ee/usr/bin/strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `Drop Desktop Client.AppDir/usr/lib/libSvtAv1Enc.so.3'

Then you can run the following:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libavif.so.16 /usr/lib/libavif.so.15
NO_STRIP=true yarn tauri build

This is a known issue in Tauri.