2014-12-21 08:02:28 +00:00
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Building MailHog
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2014-12-21 07:55:53 +00:00
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2018-09-14 11:47:52 +00:00
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MailHog is built using `make`, and using [this Makefile](../Makefile).
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If you aren't making any code changes, you can install MailHog using
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2016-07-07 21:18:30 +00:00
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`go get github.com/mailhog/MailHog`, since [mailhog/MailHog-UI/assets/assets.go](https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog-UI/blob/master/assets/assets.go)
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is already pre-compiled and committed to this repository.
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### Why do I need a Makefile?
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MailHog has HTML, CSS and Javascript assets which need to be converted
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to a go source file using [go-bindata](https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata).
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This must happen before running `go build` or `go install` to avoid compilation
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errors (e.g., `no buildable Go source files in MailHog-UI/assets`).
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### go generate
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The build should be updated to use `go generate` (added in Go 1.4) to
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preprocess static assets into go source files.
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However, this will break backwards compatibility with Go 1.2/1.3.
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2014-12-21 07:57:22 +00:00
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### Building a release
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Releases are built using [gox](https://github.com/mitchellh/gox).
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Run `make release` to cross-compile for all available platforms.
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