Build docker-ce from moby

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Hi, I’m trying to understand the process of installing docker from source by building the binary from the code on github instead of directly downloading and using the .deb file available. I cloned moby/moby repo and executed the ‘make binary’ command. I get this error:

mkdir bundles
Makefile:152: The docker client CLI has moved to github.com/docker/cli. For a dev-test cycle involving the CLI, run:
DOCKER_CLI_PATH=/host/path/to/cli/binary make shell
then change the cli and compile into a binary at the same location.

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=“1” docker build --build-arg=CROSS=false -t “docker-dev:master” -f “Dockerfile” .
buildkit not supported by daemon
Makefile:152: recipe for target ‘build’ failed
make: *** [build] Error 1

Firstly, is this the correct approach? If yes, can anyone point out if I missed something that led to this error?

System Details:
OS: Ubuntu 16.04.6 (xenial)
Kernel : 4.15.0-47-generic
Docker version 18.06.1-ce

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You could either try enabling buildkit from your daemon.conf file ( have a look here) :

Add the following to /etc/docker/daemon.json, and restart the daemon

{ "features": { "buildkit": true } }

Or you could run the make command without buildkit (which will make docker use the traditional image build tool) by running make command with this argument:

make DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 binary

(You might have to edit your Makefile and pass proxy as build arguments if your internet connection goes through a proxy)

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