isle/docs/dev/building.md

Building Isle

Building from source requires nix.

(NOTE The first time you run some of these builds a lot of things will be built from scratch. If you have not otherwise configured it, nix might be using a tmpfs as its build directory, and the capacity of this tmpfs will probably be exceeded by this build. You can change your build directory to somewhere on-disk by setting the TMPDIR environment variable for nix-daemon (see this github issue.))

Current System

You can build an AppImage for your current system by running the following from the project's root:

nix-build -A appImageBin

The resulting binary can be found under result/bin.

Cross-Compile

An AppImage can be cross-compiled by passing the hostSystem argument:

nix-build --argstr hostSystem "x86_64-linux" -A appImageBin

Supported system strings are enumerated in nix/pkgs.nix.