Building slipstream locally

To build slipstream locally on debian-based distros, you need the following dependencies installed:

• cmake
• git
• pkg-config
• libssl-dev
• ninja-build
• clang

Clone the slipstream repo and its submodules recursively. This fetches slipstream, SPCDNS, lua-resty-base-encoding, and our picoquic fork.

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/EndPositive/slipstream.git

You can then configure slipstream by running the following command:

# Configure CMake
$ cmake \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=ninja \
  -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang \
  -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ \
  -G Ninja \
  -S . \
  -B build
# Build the client and server binaries
$ cmake \
  --build build \
  --target slipstream-client slipstream-server

This will place the client and server binaries in the build/ directory. These are dynamically linked binaries against OpenSSL and GNU C.