Building the source locally

How to build the latest source version on your own PC

v1.0.0 will introduce breaking changes to this documentation

• Rust version 1.89.0 or higher is required when building from source, run rustup update to update your Rust version. See installing Rust
• libprotoc version 30.2 or higher is required to run VES. Make sure you have an updated version of Protoc installed. Visit protobuf.dev to install libprotoc.

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This guide is intended for use when developing the Core Agent locally, if you’re interested in using the Core Agent locally. See running an instance locally

Building the latest version of the source code locally on Linux and Windows takes ~10 minutes, use the following steps

1. Clone the latest version locally

   Go to latest source version, copy the repo web URL

   

   On your laptop’s terminal, preferably in your $HOME directory, clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/H3IMD3LL-Labs-Inc/VES.git
   
2. Build an executable binary from your local repo

   Go to the repo’s root directory and run the cargo build command to get an executable binary

   cd VES
   cargo build --release --locked
   

   The --locked when building the source ensures you use the exact dependency version specified in the Cargo.lock file, DO NOT manually edit this file!

3. Ensure the executable binary exists

   Find your executable binary located here, from the repo’s root directory

   Linux

   cd target/release
   

   Windows

   cd target\release
   

   

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You now have the Core Agent binary on your PC configured with default configuration options.

Next Steps

Configuration Guides

Get started with your own configuration options

Contributing

Get started contributing to developments and improvements