What I am proposing is to add make files to the cmake folder for braft and brpc deps like there are for For, S2, Jemalloc, etc. https://github.com/typesense/typesense/blob/ccb05375b743f4618f09bec05f41f140a7dfbda4/cmake/For.cmake#L7-L10 I could manually copy the built files into the typesense folder (which is what I suspect you are doing), but using the make files to download the dep and build them statically would make things much easier for people who just want to quickly contribute to the project. The Dockerfile does the download and build process, but that only works for Docker builds. It doesn't help for people who want to build the code directly. https://github.com/typesense/typesense/blob/ccb05375b743f4618f09bec05f41f140a7dfbda4/docker/development.Dockerfile#L77-L95 As for the build error, this is what I see

LGoolsby@MyMachine typesense % ./build.sh

++ dirname ./build.sh ++ read a ++ cd . ++ pwd ++ break + PROJECT_DIR=/my/repo/dir/typesense ++ uname -s + SYSTEM_NAME=Darwin + BUILD_DIR=build-Darwin + '[' -z '' ']' + TYPESENSE_VERSION=nightly + [[ '' == \-\-\c\l\e\a\n ]] + [[ '' == \-\-\d\e\p\c\l\e\a\n ]] + cmake -DTYPESENSE_VERSION=nightly -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -H/my/repo/dir/typesense -B/my/repo/dir/typesense/build-Darwin -- Found ICU header files in /usr/local/opt/icu4c/include -- Found ICU libraries: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicuuc.a -- Found LevelDB (include: /usr/local/include, library: /usr/local/lib/libleveldb.a) OpenSSL library: /usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/libssl.a;/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/libcrypto.a -- Configuring done -- Generating done -- Build files have been written to: /my/repo/dir/typesense/build-Darwin + make typesense-server typesense-test -C /my/repo/dir/typesense/build-Darwin Consolidate compiler generated dependencies of target typesense-server [ 0%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/typesense-server.dir/src/app_metrics.cpp.o In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/src/app_metrics.cpp2 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/include/core_api.h3 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/include/http_server.h6 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o.h41 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/hostinfo.h32 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/multithread.h27 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/socket.h33 /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/picotls.h144232: warning: missing field 'capacity' initializer [-Wmissing-field-initializers] *buf = (ptls_buffer_t){NULL}; ^ In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/src/app_metrics.cpp2 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/include/core_api.h3 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/include/http_server.h6 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o.h45 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/httpclient.h29 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/quicly.h37 /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/quicly/frame.h51093: warning: performing pointer subtraction with a null pointer may have undefined behavior [-Wnull-pointer-subtraction] return quicly_encode_close_frame(NULL, error_code, offending_frame_type, reason_phrase) - (uint8_t *)NULL; ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/src/app_metrics.cpp2 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/include/core_api.h3 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/include/http_server.h6 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o.h45 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/httpclient.h29 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/quicly.h40 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/quicly/loss.h33 /my/repo/dir/typesense/external-Darwin/h2o-6dda7d6f21610ecd5256543384fa4b4b345a88ac/include/h2o/quicly/sentmap.h25835: warning: missing field 'tail' initializer [-Wmissing-field-initializers] *map = (quicly_sentmap_t){NULL}; ^ In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/src/app_metrics.cpp2 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/include/core_api.h4 In file included from /my/repo/dir/typesense/include/auth_manager.h11 /my/repo/dir/typesense/include/store.h1610: fatal error: 'butil/file_util.h' file not found #include <butil/file_util.h> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 warnings and 1 error generated. make[3]: * [CMakeFiles/typesense-server.dir/src/app_metrics.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: * [CMakeFiles/typesense-server.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: * [CMakeFiles/typesense-server.dir/rule] Error 2 make: * [typesense-server] Error 2