Code-server: Build instructions

[rkeene]

No build instructions for this software. It would be helpful to know how to build it from the release tarball.

[kylecarbs]

This is planned. For now you can do:

yarn
yarn task build:server:binary

It should output to packages/server/cli-[platform]

[grant]

Also use node >=8 and <9.

[muojp]

• Required (Ubuntu) packages: https://github.com/codercom/code-server/blob/master/.travis.yml#L10
• If you're using stock Node.js/npm on some distros, you would need to perform npm install -g npm to fetch newer npm which has npx binary with it.

[bketelsen]

be sure that the node version you have installed has an appropriate release for nexe/nexe, I had node 8.15.1, but there's only 8.15.0 in nexe, so I downgraded node to get this to build.

[nhooyr]

Dockerfile is available for those of you who want to dev for linux.

[nhooyr]

So lets just document the existence of the Dockerfile and for other platforms, people can look at the .travis.yml.

[uddmorningsun]

I have tried in CentOS, record in https://github.com/codercom/code-server/issues/23#issuecomment-471141576 , hope that help others

[tvarwig]

After I run yarn task build:server:binary everything builds successfully from what I can see but there are no binaries in packages/server/cli- there are no cli directories under packages/server

[activatedgeek]

I was able to get a full build working however on running I get the following error:

Error: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: versionGLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found`.

I installed the latest library which contains that version but is on a non-standard path. I updated LD_LIBRARY_PATH but to no effect. Any suggestions?

[activatedgeek]

I actually realized that I was building from master. When I built from the latest tag, it worked. Thanks!

[bpmct]

Is there no way to build from master and get a binary?

[NGTmeaty]

I believe there's a yarn task to build and get a binary.

I'd reference our Dockerfile.

[wongxingjun]

I was able to get a full build working however on running I get the following error:

Error: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: versionGLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found`.

I installed the latest library which contains that version but is on a non-standard path. I updated LD_LIBRARY_PATH but to no effect. Any suggestions?

I met the same problem recently, build instructions are needed for users to run this software on some old versions of OSes.

[nol166]

We are adding better documentation to our April to-do list. Sorry it has taken so long 🤕

[MichaelDesantis]

A new issue was opened on this https://github.com/codercom/code-server/issues/417

[code-asher]

Closing in favor of #417.