terraform/BUILDING.md

Building Terraform

This document contains details about the process for building binaries for Terraform.

Versioning

As a pre-1.0 project, we use the MINOR and PATCH versions as follows:

• a MINOR version increment indicates a release that may contain backwards incompatible changes
• a PATCH version increment indicates a release that may contain bugfixes as well as additive (backwards compatible) features and enhancements

Process

If only need to build binaries for the platform you're running (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X etc..), you can follow the instructions in the README for Developing Terraform.

The guide below outlines the steps HashiCorp takes to build the official release binaries for Terraform. This process will generate a set of binaries for each supported platform, using the gox tool.

# clone the repository if needed
git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform.git
cd terraform

# Verify unit tests pass
make test

# Build the release
# This generates binaries for each platform and places them in the pkg folder
make bin

After running these commands, you should have binaries for all supported platforms in the pkg folder.