## Installing from source

If your system isn't covered by the pre-built packages then you can build it
for yourself.  WezTerm should run on any modern unix as well as Windows 10 and
macOS.

* Install `rustup` to get the `rust` compiler installed on your system.
  [Install rustup](https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/install.html)
* Rust version 1.56 or later is required
* Build in release mode: `cargo build --release`
* Run it via either `cargo run --release --bin wezterm` or `target/release/wezterm`

You will need a collection of support libraries; the [`get-deps`](https://github.com/wez/wezterm/blob/main/get-deps) script will
attempt to install them for you.  If it doesn't know about your system,
[please contribute instructions!](https://github.com/wez/wezterm/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)

If you don't plan to submit a pull request to the wezterm repo, you can
download a smaller source tarball using these steps:

```bash
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s
curl -LO {{ src_stable }}
tar -xzf {{ src_stable_asset }}
cd {{ src_stable_dir }}
./get-deps
cargo build --release
cargo run --release --bin wezterm -- start
```

Alternatively, use the full git repo:

```bash
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s
git clone --depth=1 --branch=main --recursive https://github.com/wez/wezterm.git
cd wezterm
git submodule update --init --recursive
./get-deps
cargo build --release
cargo run --release --bin wezterm -- start
```

**If you get an error about zlib then you most likely didn't initialize the submodules;
take a closer look at the instructions!**

### Building without Wayland support on Unix systems

By default, support for both X11 and Wayland is included on Unix systems.
If your distribution has X11 but not Wayland, then you can build WezTerm without
Wayland support by changing the `build` invocation:

```bash
cargo build --release --no-default-features vendored-fonts
```

Building without X11 is not supported.