If you're not doing development on Urbit, please read https://urbit.org/docs/using/ instead.
vere, the Urbit virtual machine, depends on the following:
- C compiler (gcc or clang)
- GNU Make
- GMP
- CMake
- automake, autoconf, and libtool
- OpenSSL
- libsigsegv
- libcurl
- curses implementation (ncurses on Linux distributions, OS curses otherwise)
- Ragel
- re2c
Most of these dependencies are unfortunate; we aim to drastically shrink the
list in upcoming versions. vere proper makes use of GMP, OpenSSL, libcurl, and
libsigsegv. The multiple build tools are a result of bundled libraries, slated
for future unbundling or removal wherever possible.
Our Makefile should handle the build smoothly on all supported platforms. It's just a simple Makefile, written by hand for GNU Make, and the most complicated parts of its internal machinery have to do with the varied build systems of the bundled libraries.
Useful targets are the default all, clean, and distclean. The last may not
produce an entirely clean distribution directory, and runs a bundled library's
configure script; git clean may be a better option.
The vere binary is produced in bin/urbit.
If you have any questions, problems, patches, or proposals for patches, please
contact the maintainer, Raymond Pasco (ray@the.ug, ~rolsut-rospub on Urbit)
by any means available.