Getting Started

This section tells you everything you need to know in order to get started developing for builds.rs.

Generally, it is easiest to use Linux to develop builds.rs, because that generally makes it much easier to install the tooling needed to build and run it. However, this is not a requirement.

If you are not using Linux natively, we recommend that you do one of the following:

macOS

If you are on macOS, building and running builds.rs locally should work. However, if you do still want to use Linux, we recommend you install UTM, which lets you install Linux inside a virtual machine. It is built on top of QEMU and works good, even on the newer M2 macs.

Windows

If you are on Windows, we recommend that you enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux and use that. If this does not work for you, an alternative approach is to use a virtualisation software such as VirtualBox.

Issues

If you encounter any issue, feel free to open an issue report and we will look into it. If it is a bug or something incorrect in the documentation, we will fix it.