Build from Source

EDPF relies on Tauri under the hood. Tauri uses Rust on the “Backend” side and your system’s WebView-Implementation on the “Frontend” side. For the frontend, we rely on bun for build tooling.

Before attempting to run and build EDPF, go through this checklist.

Windows Instructions

Currently, build instructions are missing for Windows. This stems from the fact that EDPF is developed on Linux and there is no machine available for testing on Windows. If you have a Windows machine and want to extend the docs section here, PRs would be very welcome!

1. Install Tauri System dependencies. Tauri provides a thorough list of all required packages for most common Distributions and for Windows here.
2. Install Rust. It is very recommended to install rustup. This is a version manager for Rust, which will make quickly switching versions or doing upgrades a lot easier in the future. You can get rustup here. Check if your platform provides it via the package manager instead first.
3. Install bun. EDPF uses bun for building and bundling anything frontend related. You can get bun here. Check if your platform provides it via the package manager instead first.
4. Install the Tauri CLI. Simply run cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2.0.0" --locked. (reference). cargo is build tooling for Rust and gets added to your $PATH by rustup.
5. Install frontend dependencies. Simply run bun i in the project root once it’s installed
6. Start dev mode. Because you install the Tauri CLI you can now use cargo tauri dev. This will start the frontend dev server using vite and the Rust backend. If you do any file changes to your code, the Dev mode will automatically rebuild and restart your App.

Bundle the App

This is still missing