Steps I had to take to get signal-backup-decode to compile on ubuntu 20.04

[pale2hall]

On Ubuntu 20.04 I had to do the following to get it to compile:

• Install Rust (obvious, but I haven't played with Rust yet)
• add ~/.cargo/bin to my PATH
• sudo apt install libssl-dev
• export OPENSSL_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"
• export OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR="/usr/include/openssl"
• sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev

Awesome utility. thank you.

[tmo1]

And here are the steps I needed on Debian unstable:

• Install Rust: apt install rustc
• Install the SQLite and OpenSSL development files: apt install libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev [I actually already had the latter installed.]
• Install pkg-config: apt install pkg-config

I didn't need the other steps mentioned above (I just ran the binary directly with ~/path/to/signal-backup-decode).

I suggest that these various dependencies be explicitly documented in the README.

But it certainly is an awesome utility - thank you!

[mutlusun]

Hello,

do you think the changes in #37 are sufficient?

[tmo1]

Hello,

do you think the changes in #37 are sufficient?

Thanks! Looks good to me. I'd probably mention apt install rustc for Debian in the README as well, but that's your call. Thanks again for your work on this.

[mutlusun]

Thanks for your feedback!

I added a link to the rust installation page. The website prefers installation using rustup and not the debian package. Thus, I would leave the decision to the user.

[tmo1]

Thanks for your feedback!

I added a link to the rust installation page. The website prefers installation using rustup and not the debian package. Thus, I would leave the decision to the user.

Fair enough (although for some reason, I don't see the link to the rust installation page).

[weskandar]

I would add: sudo apt install build-essentials

I tried it on a new Ubuntu installation and of course it needed a C compiler..