Building from source

You can customize the rendering backend and window system using build arguments.

Build dependences

• zig compiler (0.15.1)
• glslang-tools installed (optional)

Options

• -Drender-backend

  • OpenGL
  • Vulkan (default)

• -Dwindow-system

  • Xlib
  • Xcb (default on Linux)
  • Win32 (default on Windows)

• -Dno-lsp-check

  • true
  • false (default)

  this disables a step called check that used automatically by zls to load build configuration

• -Ddisable-renderer-debug

  • true (default in release builds)
  • false (default in debug builds)

  this disables debuging callbacks and validation layers

build examples

zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast -Dwindow-system=Xcb -Dno-lsp-check -Drender-backend=Vulkan

Cross-compile to Windows from Linux

zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-windows -Drender-backend=OpenGL -Ddisable-renderer-debug