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Windows build

WARNING: Windows are not officially supported - windows build instructions are contributed and resulting executable has some limitations (no features) and issues.

Clone the repository with:

git clone https://github.com/izderadicka/audioserve

or download the ZIP archive.

Download the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc version of Rust compiler from rust-lang.org. Also download and perform the default installation of the Build tools for Visual Studio. You may ignore the request to reboot the system after the installation.

Download the 4.1 "development" version of Windows 64-bit binaries of FFmpeg from the official website. Extract all /lib/*.lib files such as avcodec.lib from the archive to the C:\Program Files\Rust stable MSVC 1.43\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib folder.

Open a Command prompt or a PowerShell window, change to the directory where you have previously extracted the contents of audioserve-master and run:

cargo build --release --no-default-features

After compilation, you will find the compiled binary, audioserve.exe, in the target\release sub-folder.

Next, switch to the client folder under \target\release. Install the NPM software from https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and build the client using:

npm install
npm run build

Transfer the resulting audioserve.exe with the entire contents of the client folder to the preferred location.

Known issues:

  • compilation with the --features partially-static option does not work (instead, use the shared FFmpeg libraries as described above).
  • Audioserve doesn't recognize the paths that contain drive letters (i.e. C:\) and paths with symlinks or directory junctions. Put the audioserve.exe to the same disk drive as the folder with audio files and use it with paths relative to the root of the drive. For example, if the path to the program is d:\Audioserve\audioserve.exe, its data folder is D:\Audioserve\data and your audio files are located in C:\Audiobooks\, launch the program as D:\Audioserve\audioserve.exe --no-authentication --data-dir \Audioserve\data \Audiobooks.
  • As the result of the above, you can not use the multiple folders with audio files across the different disks with Audioserve.
  • Audioserve.exe does not have an application icon.
  • The program keeps the terminal window open while it is running. To hide it, use any Windows utility that allows launching terminal programs as "Windows services" in the background.
  • Above instructions were only tested on a 64-bit Windows 10 platform.