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  "content":"<p>building <a href=\"https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec\">ktistec</a> is still an endeavor&mdash;both in time and in space. i have work ahead of me to reduce the build footprint&mdash;since starting this project, i've learned that some combinations of the crystal language features i used to recreate rails magic (macros, named arguments and inheritance) are hard on the compiler.</p><p>in any case, having exceeded the capacity of the tiny linux vps that hosts <a href=\"https://epiktistes.com/\">epiktistes</a>, i set out to build a statically linked executable on my laptop (macos mojave) that i could deploy to my vps (linux centos).</p><p>the official instructions, using docker and alpine linux, are <a href=\"https://crystal-lang.org/reference/guides/static_linking.html\">here</a>. to get it to build, i had to install the static libraries for sqlite, and to get it to run on my vps i had to specify the location of the openssl cert file, which is loaded at runtime and doesn't match the location in alpine linux.</p><p>tl;dr the steps</p><ul><li>build (i haven't automated any of this yet)<ol><li><code>docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/workspace -w /workspace crystallang/crystal:latest-alpine sh</code></li><li><code>apk update &amp;&amp; apk upgrade</code></li><li><code>apk add sqlite-static</code></li><li><code>crystal build src/ktistec/server.cr --static</code></li><li><code>exit</code></li></ol></li><li>run (after copying the executable to the vps)<ul><li><code>SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt ./server</code></li></ul></li></ul><p><a href=\"https://epiktistes.com/tags/ktistec\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#ktistec</a> <a href=\"https://epiktistes.com/tags/crystal\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#crystal</a></p>",
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