Installation

Pre-compiled binaries

Pre-compiled binaries are available on Archetect's Releases GitHub Page for 64 bit flavors of OSX, Linux, and Windows. The Linux binary is compiled against musl libc for compatibility on multiple Linux distribution flavors.

Installation is as simple as downloading the zip file that matches your platform, extracting the contents, and placing the archetect or archetect.exe binary within a location of your choosing. Ideally, that location would be on your path.

Note: On OSX, unsigned cli binaries, like Archetect, are not allowed to run by default. To allow Archetect to run on OSX, you'll need to browse to the binary with Finder, right or Control-click on it, and click "Open". Once you've done this, you should be able to execute Archetect at the command line for hence forth.

For Rust Developers

If you're an existing or aspiring Rust developer with a recent version of the Rust toolchain installed, you can install Archetect in a few ways.

Via cargo (for the most recent stable version):

cargo install archetect --force

From source (for the bleeding edge):

cd ~/projects/rust
git clone git@github.com:archetect/archetect.git
cd archetect
cargo install --path ./archetect-cli --force 

Verifying Install

If Archetect is on your shell's path, you can verify that you've got a working binary by executing the following from your shell:

archetect --version