How to install?

[McSinyx]

I am interested in running a farside instance. Without knowing any elixir, I managed to use nix's mixRelease, which gives me the following:

$ tree result
result
├── bin
│   └── farside
├── erts-12.2
│   └── bin
│       └── *
├── lib
│   └── *
└── releases
    ├── 0.1.0
    │   └── *
    └── start_erl.data
$ result/bin/farside
cat: result/releases/COOKIE: No such file or directory

Obviously this is not right and I don't expect you to know how to do it in nix, but I'd appreciate the installation procedure so that I can bring it to the nix folks for assistance.

[benbusby]

Does the development section of the README cover enough info? I'm happy to expand on any of those steps if needed. There also shouldn't be a need to build/use a release version of the app -- running mix run --no-halt should be good enough.

[McSinyx]

I thought the development guide is for hacking and imagine it is possible to compile farside to binaries independent of mix.

It would be more preferable for downstream/users to avoid runtime dependencies where possible. Therefore, I would like to know how to correctly compile the program because it seems mix does support that.