sing-box/docs/installation/build-from-source.md

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Build from source

:material-graph: Requirements

Before sing-box 1.4.0:

• Go 1.18.5 - 1.20.x

Since sing-box 1.4.0:

• Go 1.18.5 - ~
• Go 1.20.0 - ~ if with_quic tag enabled

You can download and install Go from: https://go.dev/doc/install, latest version is recommended.

:material-fast-forward: Simple Build

make

Or build and install binary to GOBIN:

make install

:material-cog: Custom Build

TAGS="tag_a tag_b" make

or

go build -tags "tag_a tag_b" ./cmd/sing-box

:material-folder-settings: Build Tags

Build Tag	Enabled by default	Description
with_quic	✔	Build with QUIC support, see QUIC and HTTP3 DNS transports, Naive inbound, Hysteria Inbound, Hysteria Outbound and V2Ray Transport#QUIC.
with_grpc	✖️	Build with standard gRPC support, see V2Ray Transport#gRPC.
with_dhcp	✔	Build with DHCP support, see DHCP DNS transport.
with_wireguard	✔	Build with WireGuard support, see WireGuard outbound.
with_ech	✔	Build with TLS ECH extension support for TLS outbound, see TLS.
with_utls	✔	Build with uTLS support for TLS outbound, see TLS.
with_reality_server	✔	Build with reality TLS server support, see TLS.
with_acme	✔	Build with ACME TLS certificate issuer support, see TLS.
with_clash_api	✔	Build with Clash API support, see Experimental.
with_v2ray_api	✖️	Build with V2Ray API support, see Experimental.
with_gvisor	✔	Build with gVisor support, see Tun inbound and WireGuard outbound.
with_embedded_tor (CGO required)	✖️	Build with embedded Tor support, see Tor outbound.
with_lwip (CGO required)	✖️	Build with LWIP Tun stack support, see Tun inbound.

It is not recommended to change the default build tag list unless you really know what you are adding.