Creating a release build of Rack

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I’m able to create a debug build, but I don’t really see any make instructions for creating a release build. Anybody have any ideas?

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make dist.

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Hi. Look here (link below). You find there basics informations for compiling new biuilds. That’s all you need .

Good Luck & cheers

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I’m just curious :thinking: Why would you want to run a self-compiled release build?

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Same reason to have a release build of anything else. To have full optimizations turned on, and no debug info.

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I run a self-compiled release build with the following changes/optimizations:

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Yes, make dist is the obvious answer here and I remember trying it previously but it had failed. It still fails actually.

Edit: I ran pacman -S markdown to fix a markdown issue. It failed to build the fundamentals vcv plugin, but I can debug that later. I think that’s needed to finish the build successfully, though, but I may be wrong. Rack.exe is in my dist folder, but it looks like it was copied from my dev build and wasn’t successfully rebuilt/stripped.

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I’ve built Rack several times. Release builds aren’t in those docs. Thanks though

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For my custom build I created a bash file called final.sh which I use when the build finishes and I want a non-debug version. The dist folder can be named anything you want.

Note this is on Windows/MSYS2

mkdir -p dist
cp Rack.exe libRack.dll dist
strip -s dist/*
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That is probably the cleanest approach. I tried it and it worked flawlessly.

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