wh

Terminal WhatsApp client (ratatui) with per-chat and global AI autoreply via an OpenAI-compatible API.

Build

cargo build --release

Built from Windows with cargo-zigbuild. Zig provides the C cross-compiler and linker for the bundled C code (SQLite, aws-lc-sys, ring).

One-time prerequisites:

rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
winget install -e --id zig.zig      # or: pip install ziglang
cargo install --locked cargo-zigbuild

Build:

cargo zigbuild --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

Output: target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/wh

Verify on Linux:

file wh   # ELF 64-bit x86-64, statically linked
chmod +x wh && ./wh

On Linux, config and databases live in ~/.config/wh/ (config.toml, session.db, history.db); on Windows in %APPDATA%\wh.

Copy session.db from Windows to reuse the linked session instead of scanning the QR again.