Installation

Dorcs is a Go application distributed as a single executable.

Use a release binary

Download a release from the GitHub releases page and run it directly.

Linux:

chmod +x dorcs
./dorcs

Windows:

.\dorcs.exe

macOS is currently a build-from-source path in this repository.

Build from source

Requirements:

• Go 1.25+

Build:

go build -o dorcs ./cmd/dorcs

Run from source:

go run ./cmd/dorcs

Cross-platform builds

Linux:

CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o dorcs ./cmd/dorcs

Windows:

GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -o dorcs.exe ./cmd/dorcs

Verify the install

dorcs --help

Then continue with Getting Started.