Building Drop server for other platforms

Unfortunately, we don't have the time or resources to build and debug our software for platforms other than x86-64. However, we offer this guide as a way to get it running, at your own risk.

Prerequisites

To compile:

• Rust (stable)
• Node.js v20
• yarn (v1/legacy) package manager
• git VCS
• Docker

To run:

• Docker

Building droplet

droplet is a high-performance utility package for the Drop server. It's a napi.rs module, meaning it's written in Rust and then compiled to an NPM module.

Get started by cloning the droplet source code, and then enter the directory:

git clone https://github.com/Drop-OSS/droplet.git

Install the dependencies with yarn:

yarn

And then compile the package with the build script:

yarn build

Because we're building this locally, setup the yarn link so we can use this package while building the server:

yarn link

Building drop

drop is the self hosted server. It's a Nuxt 3 project, but depends on the droplet package so isn't easily transportable.

Get started by cloning the drop source code, and then enter the directory:

git clone https://github.com/Drop-OSS/drop.git

Then, link your build droplet package:

yarn link "@drop/droplet"

Then, install dependencies:

yarn

Then, build the application:

yarn build

To package it into a Docker container, remove the build commands in the provided Dockerfile's build-system (yarn install and yarn build), and then build the Docker image:

docker build . -t drop