Building Screenpipe with Devbox MacOS 15

cmd

# make sure we're using the right XCode
sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

# build the CLI
devbox run build-release

# build the MacOS app
devbox run build-tauri

devbox.json

{
  "packages": [
    "rustup@latest",
    "libiconv@latest",
    "pkgconfig@0.29.2",
    "ffmpeg@6.1.2",
    "jq@1.7.1",
    "tesseract@5.3.4",
    "cmake@3.29.6",
    "wget@1.24.5",
    "nodejs@22.8.0",
    "bun@1.1.29"
  ],
  "shell": {
    "init_hook": [
      "[[ `uname -s` == 'Darwin' ]] && export PATH=/bin:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin:$PATH",
      "projectDir=$(dirname $(readlink -f \"$0\"))",
      "rustupHomeDir=\"$projectDir\"/.rustup",
      "mkdir -p $rustupHomeDir",
      "export RUSTUP_HOME=$rustupHomeDir",
      "export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:\"/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX15.0.sdk/usr/lib\"",
      "export CPATH=$CPATH:\"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include\"",
      "export CXX=\"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang++\"",
      "export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=\"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/include/c++/v1\"",
      "export SDKROOT=\"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk\"",
      "export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=15.0",
      "rustup default stable",
      "cargo fetch"
    ],
    "scripts": {
      "build-release": [
        "cargo clean",
        "cargo build --release --features metal"
      ],
      "build-tauri": [
        "pushd screenpipe-app-tauri",
        "bun install",
        "bun scripts/pre_build.js",
        "bun tauri build",
        "popd"
      ]
    }
  }
}

settings.json

// .vscode/settings.json
{
   "rust-analyzer.cargo.features": [
      "metal",
      "pipes"
   ],
   "rust-analyzer.server.extraEnv": {
      "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH": "${workspaceFolder}/screenpipe-vision/lib:${env:DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}",
      "SCREENPIPE_APP_DEV": "true"
   },
   "rust-analyzer.cargo.extraEnv": {
      "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH": "${workspaceFolder}/screenpipe-vision/lib:${env:DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}",
      "SCREENPIPE_APP_DEV": "true"
   },
   "terminal.integrated.env.osx": {
      "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH": "${workspaceFolder}/screenpipe-vision/lib:${env:DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}",
      "SCREENPIPE_APP_DEV": "true"
   }
}