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Building from Source

Build HoneyBee components from source.

HoneyBee Core

Prerequisites

  • Rust 1.75+ (nightly toolchain)
  • Cargo

Build Steps

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/H0neyBe/honeybee_core.git
cd honeybee_core

# Install Rust nightly
rustup toolchain install nightly
rustup default nightly

# Build
cargo build --release

# Binary location
target/release/honeybee_core

Build with Features

# Build with tracing support
cargo build --release --features tracing

HoneyBee Node

Prerequisites

  • Go 1.21+

Build Steps

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/H0neyBe/honeybee_node.git
cd honeybee_node

# Build
make build

# Or manually
go build -o build/honeybee-node ./cmd/node

Cross-Platform Builds

# Linux
make build-linux

# Windows
make build-windows

# macOS
make build-darwin

# All platforms
make build-all

HoneyBee Potstore

No build required - it’s a repository of honeypots.

Development Mode

Core

# Run with debug logging
RUST_LOG=debug cargo run

# Run with tracing
cargo run --features tracing

Node

# Run in development mode
make dev

# Or manually
go run ./cmd/node -config configs/config.yaml -debug

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