Build with Beeping in C++ Core

Git is the version-control tool you'll use to download Beeping's source. Cloud SDKs hide this, but the C++ Core is the real engine — you pull it straight from GitHub and build it yourself. This step just makes sure the `git` command exists on your machine; if it's already there it's a no-op.

git ships with the Xcode Command Line Tools. This pops a system dialog — accept it and let it finish.

xcode-select --install

This downloads a full copy of the beeping-core repository — the C++20 audio engine that every other Beeping SDK wraps — into a new beeping-core/ folder. Nothing compiles yet; you're just getting the source onto disk so the build tools have something to work with.

git clone https://github.com/beeping-io/beeping-core.git

CMake is the build-system generator the project uses: it reads beeping-core's build description and produces the actual compile/link commands for your platform. On macOS the same Homebrew line also installs Conan (the C++ dependency manager), so there's no separate Conan step there; on Linux it also pulls in the GCC compiler via build-essential.

Homebrew installs CMake and Conan in one go — no separate Conan step on macOS.

brew install cmake conan

This is the actual build. The first command fetches and compiles every dependency through Conan, then CMake configures the project and compiles the C++ Core from source. A lot of text scrolls past and the first run takes a few minutes — that's normal. When it finishes you'll have a real beeping-core CLI binary that you built yourself.

Fetch the dependencies and compile. The first build takes a few minutes; a lot of text scrolls past — that's normal.

cd beeping-core

./scripts/conan-install.sh Release

cmake --preset conan-release

cmake --build --preset conan-release

The payoff: you run the CLI you just compiled against a real .wav beep and watch it decode the hidden payload back out — the full round-trip, entirely on your own machine, no cloud. The command below points at a holonet-beep.wav in your Downloads. To get a beep encoded under your own API key (and earn the badge), run the interactive round-trip in the Holonet quest.

./build/Release/cli/beeping-core decode ~/Downloads/holonet-beep.wav