nats-api binary files

[SimpleTechGuy]

Hi, hoping someone here might be able to shed a little light on this for me. I've been looking around a bit and maybe I'm missing something, but can anybody explain the natsapi/bin/nats-api and natsapi/bin/nats-api-arm64 binary files. It appears to be the executable for the service on the server side, but Where do they come from? Where are they compiled? Is the code available for those files? How can a person verify what they actually are?

Not trying to be a pest, just can't seem to find any information about these files and where they come from.

Thanks,

[wh1te909]

code is here https://github.com/amidaware/tacticalrmm/blob/develop/main.go

[SimpleTechGuy]

Thanks for the awesome fast response, but I guess I'm still a little confused. Maybe it's because I haven't wrapped my mind entirely around nats, or even go for that matter, but I just can't figure out why the service binary's need to be pre-built rather than compiled with the go build command during install.

[wh1te909]

makes deployment easier cuz don't need to manage a go toolchain on each instance, one less thing to deal with. I am compiling them myself now locally but haven't had time yet to add a github action for it so that they're compiled on release, need to set that up

[SimpleTechGuy]

Roger that! Good enough for me. Thank you!