Create script to compile and move binaries, ignore them

scripts/build_binaries.sh

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+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+# All references to an external script should be relative to the location of this script.
+# See: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/028
+CURRENT_LOCATION="${BASH_SOURCE%/*}"
+
+checkdep() {
+    which $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || hash $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
+        echo "Unipept database builder requires ${2:-$1} to be installed." >&2
+        exit 1
+    }
+}
+
+checkdep cargo "Rust Toolchain"
+
+# Build binaries and copy them to the /helper_scripts folder
+cd $CURRENT_LOCATION/helper_scripts/unipept-database-rs
+cargo build --release
+
+for BINARY in "functional-analysis" "lcas" "taxa-by-chunk" "taxons-lineages" "taxons-uniprots-tables" "write-to-chunk" "xml-parser"
+do
+  cp "./target/release/$BINARY" ..
+done

scripts/helper_scripts/.gitignore

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+# Ignore the compiled binaries that get moved here
+functional-analysis
+lcas
+taxa-by-chunk
+taxons-lineages
+taxons-uniprots-tables
+write-to-chunk
+xml-parser