Setup-Manual.md

Manual Setup

If you want to run the API and it's dependencies manually here's how to do it.

Prepare the system

$ apt update && apt upgrade -y

Install dependencies

$ apt install -y \
  curl \
  git \
  openssl \
  libssl-dev \
  pkg-config \
  ruby-full \
  libfreetype-dev \
  build-essential \
  gcc \
  libffi-dev \
  fontconfig \
  libfontconfig-dev \

Install rust

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.3 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Clone and Build iboardbot API Server

$ cd ~
$ git clone https://github.com/Stay1444/iboardbot
$ cd iboardbot
$ cargo build --release

The binary will be in ./iboardbot/target/release/iboardbot

Clone and Build svg2gcode - Needed for drawing svgs

$ git clone https://github.com/sameer/svg2gcode
$ cd svg2gcode
$ cargo build --release

Install text2svg - Needed for writing text to the board

$ gem install text2svg

Running

$ ./iboardbot --port 8080

Adding it as a SystemD service

Fonts

TTF fonts used for text rendering go under the ./fonts directory.

Board configuration

Board configurations, such as dimensions, go on the ./boards directory.