parsav distribution

to prepare a binary (or LLVM IR) distribution of parsav, simply cd into its directory and issue the command make. any version of make should work; you may need to manually set the location of the C runtime with the runtime variable if you're not using GNU or BSD make (e.g. make runtime='crt1.o crti.o crtn.o' all). certain distributions may need extra parameters to be passed to the makefile, or the makefile may need to be run in a particular environment, such as on nix.

dependencies

the standard releases are built with most dependencies statically linked at compile time. several dependencies will need to be installed before linking parsav, however:

• libc: used for OS calls
• binutils: used to link and strip the binary
• libjsonc: used for fediverse integration
• libpq: used for the postgres backend (usually part of the postgres distribution)

makefile variables

special cases

nixos

on nixos, make will not work unless you use nix-shell to enter an environment with all the dependencies available. however, if you just want to install parsav, you can use default.nix to build a package.