BUILD_macos.md

MacOS environment setup

The instructions below are provided as in a best-effort basis. PRs with corrections and updates are welcome!

• Install Homebrew

• Go version from go.mod

  • Follow official instructions to install Go

    • On an M1 Mac, download ARM64 installer from https://go.dev/dl/
    • Download the installer for <version from go.mod>
    • After installing, don't forget to export PATH="/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH" in ~/.zprofile
    • If you need other go versions, see https://go.dev/doc/manage-install
      • You will need to add export PATH="$HOME/go/bin:$PATH" to the ~/.zprofile

  • Or install required version of Go with homebrew:

  # if we are not on the latest, you might need to install like this:
  # brew install go@<version from go.mod>, i.e. 1.16
  #
  # check which version will be installed by running:
  # brew info go
  
  brew install go

• Rust and Cargo version from build.assets/Makefile (search for RUST_VERSION):

  • Follow official instructions to install rustup
    • Or install with homebrew:

  brew install rustup

  • Initialize Rustup

  rustup-init
  #
  # accept defaults
  #
  # Once command finishes successfully, you might need to add
  # 
  # export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
  # 
  # into ~/.zprofile and run:
  # 
  # . ~/.zprofile
  # 
  # or open a new shell

  • Install the required version

  rustup toolchain install <version from build.assets/Makefile>
  cd <teleport.git>
  rustup override set <version from build.assets/Makefile>
  rustc --version
  # rustc <version from build.assets/Makefile> (db9d1b20b 2022-01-20)

• To install libfido2 (pulls openssl 1.1.1 as dependency)

  brew install libfido2

• To install yarn for building the UI

  • brew install node yarn
  • Currently, yarn (< 2.0.0) is required

Local Tests Dependencies

To run a full test suite locally, you will need

• helm and helm-unittest plugin

  brew install helm
  helm plugin install https://github.com/quintush/helm-unittest

• bats-core version from build.assets/Dockerfile (search for bats-core)

  curl -L https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core/archive/v1.2.1.tar.gz -o ~/Downloads/bats.tar.gz
  cd ~/Downloads
  tar xzvf bats.tar.gz
  sudo mkdir /usr/local/libexec
  sudo chown $USER /usr/local/libexec
  cd bats-core-1.2.1
  sudo ./install.sh /usr/local
  cd ../
  rm -rf bats-core-1.2.1 bats.tar.gz

• protoc binary, typically found in protobuf package

  brew install protobuf

• increased ulimit -n

  ulimit -n 2560 # 10x default