Building from source

As Skytable is written in Rust, you’ll have to install the Rust toolchain to build it (a little messy, but not too messy). Go to to set up Rust on your local machine.

Besides, the TLS/SSL components are written in C (OpenSSL) — so you’ll need to install:

• A C compiler for your platform
• Perl

Bonus tip

If you want to avoid downloading all the version history, run this instead:

Expecting that you’re still in the same directory, run:

note

You’ll need to copy skyd and (or skyd.exe and if on Windows) from the skybase/target/release folder. Be sure to copy these exact files and not something else!

Now start the database server by running and then start the interactive shell by running ./skysh. You’re ready to use the actions!