wezterm/docs/install/source.markdown

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
• Rust version 1.41 or later is required
• Build in release mode: cargo build --release
• Run it via either cargo run --release or target/release/wezterm

You will need a collection of support libraries; the get-deps script will attempt to install them for you. If it doesn't know about your system, please contribute instructions!

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

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

Alternatively, use the full git repo:

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
sudo ./get-deps
cargo build --release
cargo run --release -- start

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