1. Get the Source

Option 1 is to use Git to clone the repository. For this Git must be installed on the machine you are using.

Change to a directory where you’d like to download the source and run:

git clone https://github.com/iipc/openwayback.git

Option 2 is to download the source as a ZIP file.

This way you only download the current main branch of the code.

Change to a directory where you’d like to download the source and run:

wget https://github.com/iipc/openwayback/archive/master.zip;
mv master.zip openwayback.zip;
unzip openwayback.zip;
mv openwayback-master openwayback;

In either case you’ll end up with a directory named openwayback that contains the source for OpenWayback.

2. Build OpenWayback

For this step you’ll need Apache Maven 2 or higher to be able build OpenWayback .

Change into the openwayback directory created in step 1 and run:

mvn package

This will build OpenWayback, running all unit tests along the way.

To skip unit test add -Dmaven.test.skip=true to the command. This is mostly useful on Windows machines as some unit tests can fail on Windows machines.

OpenWayback consists of several sub-modules, all of which are built when this method is invoked in the root of the project. You can also build the individual modules by changing into those directories, but this may cause Maven to fetch other OpenWayback modules from online repositories, rather than building on the downloaded code.

3. Locate the Build Artifacts

Once you’ve built OpenWayback as described above, you can find the full binary distribution under openwayback/dist/target/. You can then untar it and use in the same way that you’d use a pre-built distribution downloaded from the Internet and discussed above.

If you just need the WAR file (and not the various command line tools, such as the cdx-indexer) you can get that directly from openwayback/wayback-webapp/target/. It is the same file as the one added to the distribution tarball.