This guide will help you to download and build ThingsBoard Edge from sources. Instructions listed below are tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and CentOS 7/8
Required tools
This section contains installation instructions for build tools.
Java
ThingsBoard is build using Java 11. You can use following instructions to install Java 11.
Maven
ThingsBoard build requires Maven 3.1.0+.
Please note that maven installation may set Java 7 as a default JVM on certain Linux machines. Use java installation instructions to fix this.
Source code
You can clone source code of the project from the official github repo.
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# checkout latest release branch
git clone -b release-3.5 git@github.com:thingsboard/thingsboard-edge.git
cd thingsboard-edge
Build
Run the following command from the thingsboard edge folder to build the project:
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mvn clean install -DskipTests
Build local docker images
Make sure that Docker is installed.
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mvn clean install -DskipTests -Ddockerfile.skip=false
Build artifacts
You can find debian, rpm and windows packages in the target folder:
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application/target
Tips and tricks
Thingsboard Edge is quite easy to build from sources on a brand-new clear environment.
Here are some tips and tricks to boost build experience:
- clean maven cache
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rm -rf ~/.m2/repository
- clean gradle cache
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rm -rf ~/.gradle/caches/
- clean node modules
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rm -rf ui-ngx/node_modules
- build in parallel, format headers, build docker images
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mvn -T 0.8C license:format clean install -DskipTests -Ddockerfile.skip=false
