SourceBuild

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

Source 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 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 Documentation, 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.