Using `Makefile`

August 8, 2017

Run make help for command line usage.

Prerequisites

To be able to build kubicorn using Makefile you need to have a configured Go 1.8 environment, which you can set up by following the official install tutorial. Before continuing, make sure that you can use the go command from your shell.

Building kubicorn

Details about the building process can be found in BUILD docs and INSTALL docs.

The following make commands are available for building kubicorn:

• make — parse Bootstrap scripts and create kubicorn executable in the ./bin directory and the AUTHORS file.
• make compile — create the kubicorn executable in the ./bin directory.
• make install — create the kubicorn executable in $GOPATH/bin directory.
• make build — clean the project tree and generate the kubicorn executables for 64-bit Linux, macOS, Windows and FreeBSD in the ./bin directory, as well as generate the AUTHORS file.
• make clean — removes files from the ./bin directory and the bootstrap/bootstrap.go file.

Additional building commands

• make build-linux-amd64 — create the kubicorn executable for Linux 64-bit in the ./bin directory. Requires Docker.
• make build-darwin-amd64 — create the kubicorn executable for macOS 64-bit in the ./bin directory.
• make build-freebsd-amd64 — create the kubicorn executable for FreeBSD 64-bit in the ./bin directory.
• make build-windows-amd64 — create the kubicorn executable for Windows 64-bit in the ./bin directory.

Miscellaneous

• make authorsfile — create the AUTHORS file.
• make check-header — verify all Go files to make sure they have license headers.
• make headers — add license headers to the Go files who are missing them.

Formatting Go code

The following commands can be used to format and verify Go code:

• make gofmt — format all Go files using go fmt.
• make lint — check for style mistakes all Go files using golint.
• make vet — apply go vet to all Go files.

Testing

make test and make ci are used to run tests and E2E tests. More about testing can be found in the test package.

Makefile verbose mode

By default, make will not show which commands it runs. To see what exactly is being run, you need to set VERBOSE variable, such as VERBOSE=1 make.