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Embeddable Lemonade: Building from Source

This guide shows how to build the embeddable lemond and lemonade binaries from source.

For general prerequisites, toolchain setup, and broader development workflows, see Lemonade Development.

Contents:

Default Embeddable Build

The embeddable CMake target builds the server, CLI, and required resource files, then packages them into a single archive. The release workflow uses this target to produce the embeddable archives.

cmake --preset windows -DBUILD_WEB_APP=OFF
cmake --build --preset windows --target embeddable

This produces build\lemonade-embeddable-{VERSION}-windows-x64.zip.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y cmake ninja-build g++ pkg-config libssl-dev libdrm-dev
cmake --preset default -DBUILD_WEB_APP=OFF
cmake --build --preset default --target embeddable

This produces build/lemonade-embeddable-{VERSION}-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz.

Include the Web App

If you want the embeddable build to include the browser UI assets under resources/web-app, enable BUILD_WEB_APP and build the web-app target before embeddable:

cmake --preset windows -DBUILD_WEB_APP=ON
cmake --build --preset windows --target web-app embeddable

cmake --preset default -DBUILD_WEB_APP=ON
cmake --build --preset default --target web-app embeddable

Expected Outputs

The embeddable target produces a single archive in build/:

Platform Archive
Linux lemonade-embeddable-{VERSION}-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz
Windows lemonade-embeddable-{VERSION}-windows-x64.zip

Each archive contains:

  • lemond (or lemond.exe) — the server binary
  • lemonade (or lemonade.exe) — the CLI binary
  • LICENSE
  • resources/server_models.json
  • resources/backend_versions.json
  • resources/defaults.json