Requirements:
- Install Rust
- Recommended: rust-analyzer
- Docker
- Rust ARM64 Build Container
- Mac brew install gnu-tar
Scripts (run within the ./backend directory)
- build-prod.sh - compiles a release build of the artifacts for running on ARM64
A Linux computer or VM

Structure

The StartOS backend is packed into a single binary startbox that is symlinked under several different names for different behaviour:

startd: This is the main workhorse of StartOS - any new functionality you want will likely go here
start-cli: This is a CLI tool that will allow you to issue commands to startd and control it similarly to the UI
start-sdk: This is a CLI tool that aids in building and packaging services you wish to deploy to StartOS

Finally there is a library startos that supports all of these tools.

See here for details.

Building

You can build the entire operating system image using make from the root of the StartOS project. This will subsequently invoke the build scripts above to actually create the requisite binaries and put them onto the final operating system image.

Questions

If you have questions about how various pieces of the backend system work. Open an issue and tag the following people

dr-bonez