Environment Setup

StartOS machine

You will need a computer running StartOS to test your package. Follow the flashing guide to install StartOS on a physical device or VM.

Docker is needed to convert docker images to StartOS images.

Make is needed to streamline builds and produce s9pk binaries.

NodeJS is needed to compile the Typescript in your StartOS package.

SquashFS is needed to pack the compiled Javascript into a SquashFS file

sudo apt install squashfs-tools squashfs-tools-ng

brew install squashfs

start-cli is needed to interact with StartOS from the command line.

Clone the StartOS repo

https://github.com/Start9Labs/start-os.git

Initialize the git submodules

git submodule update --init --recursive

Build Start CLI
```
make cli
```
Initialize Start CLI
```
start-cli init
```
This will generate a .startos directory inside your home directory. This directory will contain a newly-generated developer.key.pem, used to sign packages, as well as a default config.yaml, which can be edited to customize and streamline your developer experience.