Installing GCLI

Through package manager

If you're on FreeBSD you can just install gcli by running the following command:

# pkg install gcli

On NetBSD you can run:

# pkgin install gcli

On Ubuntu, Debian, Devuan and the like you can run:

# apt install gcli

On ArchLinux you can either use the AUR manually or use your favourite AUR helper:

# yay -S gcli

Compile the source code

Other operating systems may currently require manual compilation and installation.

Windows NT Notes

It is entirely possible to build gcli on Windows using MSYS2. Please follow their instructions on how to set up a development environment.

Generic build instructions

For this purpose go to https://herrhotzenplotz.de/gcli/releases and choose the latest release. Then download one of the tarballs.

For version 1.1.0 this would be:

https://herrhotzenplotz.de/gcli/releases/gcli-1.1.0/gcli-1.1.0.tar.xz

Now that you have a link, you can download it, extract it, compile the code and install it:

$ mkdir ~/build
$ cd ~/build
$ curl -4LO https://herrhotzenplotz.de/gcli/releases/gcli-1.1.0/gcli-1.1.0.tar.xz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  342k  100  342k    0     0  2739k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2736k
$ ls
gcli-1.1.0.tar.xz
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Install the dependencies for building gcli:

e.g. on Debian systems:

# apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev pkgconf build-essential

or on MSYS2:

$ pacman -S libcurl-devel pkgconf

Extract the tarball:

$ tar xf gcli-1.1.0.tar.xz
$ cd gcli-1.1.0

Configure, build and install gcli:

$ ./configure
...
$ make
...
$ make install

Check that the shell finds gcli:

$ which gcli
/usr/local/bin/gcli
$
$ gcli version
gcli 1.1.0 (amd64-unknown-freebsd13.2)
Using libcurl/8.1.2 OpenSSL/1.1.1t zlib/1.2.13 libpsl/0.21.2 (+libidn2/2.3.4) libssh2/1.11.0 nghttp2/1.53.0
Using vendored pdjson library
Report bugs at https://gitlab.com/herrhotzenplotz/gcli/.
Copyright 2021, 2022, 2023 Nico Sonack <nsonack@herrhotzenplotz.de> and contributors.
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Advanced Windows Environment Setup

In case you want to use the installed gcli from outside MSYS2 (e.g. in cmd.exe) you may wish to update the Path environment variable and add the C:\msys2\usr\bin directory to it. Make sure you have the library paths set up correctly.