How is the GUI bundled into the binary?

jackk · September 29, 2019, 8:26pm

Hello, I have been looking through the Syncthing source code to try and understand the application more, and I’ve been trying to figure out how the web GUI is bundled in with the release binary. So my question essentially is, how is this achieved? Thanks!

AudriusButkevicius · September 29, 2019, 8:35pm

github.com

syncthing/syncthing/blob/master/lib/auto/doc.go#L7


// Copyright (C) 2014 The Syncthing Authors.
//
// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
// You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.


//go:generate go run ../../script/genassets.go -o gui.files.go ../../gui


// Package auto contains auto generated files for web assets.
package auto

jackk · September 29, 2019, 8:37pm

Thanks for pointing that out to me. I completely went past it to be honest. I’ll go and give it a read over. Thanks again!

imsodin · September 30, 2019, 6:21am

This comment and following also have some relevant info when it comes to the GUI assets: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/4085#issuecomment-512854333