tauri/tooling/cli/ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES.md

Tauri's Environment Variables

This is a documentation of all environment variables used by tauri core crates and tauri CLI.

Tauri CLI

These environment variables are inputs to the CLI which may have an equivalent CLI flag.

if both environment variable and CLI flag are used, the CLI flag will have priority.

• TAURI_PATH_DEPTH — Number of levels to traverse and find tauri configuration file.
• TAURI_DEV_SERVER_PORT — Port to use for the CLI built-in dev server.
• TAURI_DEV_WATCHER_IGNORE_FILE — A .gitignore-style file to control which files should be watched by the CLI in dev command.
• TAURI_SKIP_DEVSERVER_CHECK — Skip waiting for the frontend dev server to start before building the tauri application.
• TAURI_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK — Skip checking for a newer CLI version before exiting the CLI process.
• TAURI_TRAY — Set this var to ayatana to use libayatana-appindicator for system tray on Linux or set it appindicator to use libappindicator.
  • For deb bundle target, the CLI will add the appropriate package as a dependency, if unset, the CLI will default to ayatana.
  • For appimage bundle target, the CLI will copy the appropriate package to the appimage. if unset, the CLI will make a guess based on what package is installed on the developer system.
• TAURI_FIPS_COMPLIANT — Specify WiX FipsCompliant option
• TAURI_PRIVATE_KEY — Private key used to sign your app bundles
• TAURI_KEY_PASSWORD — The private key password, see TAURI_PRIVATE_KEY
• APPLE_CERTIFICATE — Base64 encoded of the .p12 certificate for code signing. To get this value, run openssl base64 -in MyCertificate.p12 -out MyCertificate-base64.txt.
• APPLE_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD — The password you used to export the certificate.
• APPLE_ID — The Apple ID used to notarize the application. If this environment variable is provided, APPLE_PASSWORD must also be set. Alternatively, APPLE_API_KEY and APPLE_API_ISSUER can be used to authenticate.
• APPLE_PASSWORD — The Apple password used to authenticate for application notarization. Required if APPLE_ID is specified. An app-specific password can be used. Alternatively to entering the password in plaintext, it may also be specified using a '@keychain:' or '@env:' prefix followed by a keychain password item name or environment variable name.
• APPLE_API_KEY — Alternative to APPLE_ID and APPLE_PASSWORD for notarization authentication using JWT.
  • This option will search the following directories in sequence for a private key file with the name of 'AuthKey_<api_key>.p8': './private_keys', '~/private_keys', '~/.private_keys', and '~/.appstoreconnect/private_keys'. Additionally, you can set environment variable $API_PRIVATE_KEYS_DIR or a user default API_PRIVATE_KEYS_DIR to specify the directory where your AuthKey file is located.
  • See creating API keys for more information.
• APPLE_API_ISSUER — Issuer ID. Required if APPLE_API_KEY is specified.
• APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY — The identity used to code sign. Overwrites tauri.conf.json > tauri > bundle > macOS > signingIdentity.
• APPLE_PROVIDER_SHORT_NAME — If your Apple ID is connected to multiple teams, you have to specify the provider short name of the team you want to use to notarize your app. Overwrites tauri.conf.json > tauri > bundle > macOS > providerShortName.
• CI — If set, the CLI will run in CI mode and won't require any user interaction.

Tauri CLI Hook Commands

These environment variables are set for each hook command (beforeDevCommand, beforeBuildCommand, ...etc) which could be useful to conditionally build your frontend or execute a specific action.

• TAURI_ARCH — Target arch, x86_64, aarch64...etc.
• TAURI_PLATFORM — Target platform, windows, macos, linux...etc.
• TAURI_FAMILY — Target platform family unix or windows.
• TAURI_PLATFORM_TYPE — Target platform type Linux, Windows_NT or Darwin
• TAURI_PLATFORM_VERSION — Build platform version
• TAURI_DEBUG — true for dev command, false for build command.
• TAURI_TARGET_TRIPLE — Target triple the CLI is building.