eden/docs/Deps.md

Dependencies

To build Eden, you MUST have a C++ compiler.

• On Linux, this is usually GCC 11+ or Clang v14+
  • GCC 12 also requires Clang 14+
• On Windows, this is either:
  • MSVC (you should select Community option),
    • A convenience script to install the Visual Community Studio 2022 with necessary tools is provided in .ci/windows/install-msvc.ps1
  • clang-cl - can be downloaded from the MSVC installer,
  • or MSYS2
• On macOS, this is Apple Clang
  • This can be installed with xcode-select --install

The following additional tools are also required:

• CMake 3.22+ - already included with the Android SDK
• Git for version control
  • Windows installer
• On Windows, you must install the Vulkan SDK as well
  • A convenience script to install the latest SDK is provided in .ci/windows/install-vulkan-sdk.ps1

If you are on desktop and plan to use the Qt frontend, you must install Qt 6, and optionally Qt Creator (the recommended IDE for building)

• On Linux, *BSD and macOS, this can be done by the package manager
  • If you wish to use Qt Creator, append qtcreator or qt-creator to the commands seen below.
• MSVC/clang-cl users on Windows must install through the official installer
• Linux and macOS users may choose to use the installer as well.
• MSYS2 can also install Qt 6 via the package manager

If you are on Windows and NOT building with MSYS2, you may go back home and continue.

Externals

The following are handled by Eden's externals:

• FFmpeg (should use -DYUZU_USE_EXTERNAL_FFMPEG=ON)
• SDL2 2.0.18+ (should use -DYUZU_USE_EXTERNAL_SDL2=ON OR -DYUZU_USE_BUNDLED_SDL2=ON to reduce compile time)

All other dependencies will be downloaded and built by CPM if YUZU_USE_CPM is on, but will always use system dependencies if available (UNIX-like only):

• Boost 1.57.0+
• Catch2 3.0.1 if YUZU_TESTS or DYNARMIC_TESTS are on
• fmt 8.0.1+
• lz4
• nlohmann_json 3.8+
• OpenSSL 1.1.1+
• ZLIB 1.2+
• zstd 1.5+
• enet 1.3+
• Opus 1.3+
• MbedTLS 3+

Vulkan 1.3.274+ is also needed:

• VulkanUtilityLibraries
• VulkanHeaders
• SPIRV-Tools
• SPIRV-Headers

Certain other dependencies will be fetched by CPM regardless. System packages can be used for these libraries, but many are either not packaged by most distributions OR have issues when used by the system:

• SimpleIni
• DiscordRPC
• cubeb
• libusb
• VulkanMemoryAllocator
• sirit
• httplib - if ENABLE_QT_UPDATE_CHECKER or ENABLE_WEB_SERVICE are on
  • This package is known to be broken on the AUR.
• cpp-jwt 1.4+ - if ENABLE_WEB_SERVICE is on
• unordered-dense
• mcl - subject to removal

On amd64:

• xbyak - 7.22 or earlier is recommended
• zycore
• zydis 4+
• Note: zydis and zycore-c MUST match. Using one as a system dependency and the other as a bundled dependency WILL break things

On aarch64 OR if DYNARMIC_TESTS is on:

• oaknut 2.0.1+

On riscv64:

• biscuit 0.9.1+

Commands

These are commands to install all necessary dependencies on various Linux and BSD distributions, as well as macOS. Always review what you're running before you hit Enter!

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Arch Linux

sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel boost catch2 cmake enet ffmpeg fmt git glslang libzip lz4 mbedtls ninja nlohmann-json openssl opus qt6-base qt6-multimedia sdl2 zlib zstd zip unzip zydis zycore vulkan-headers vulkan-utility-libraries libusb spirv-tools spirv-headers

• Building with QT Web Engine requires qt6-webengine as well.
• Proper Wayland support requires qt6-wayland
• GCC 11 or later is required.

Ubuntu, Debian, Mint Linux

sudo apt-get install autoconf cmake g++ gcc git glslang-tools libglu1-mesa-dev libhidapi-dev libpulse-dev libtool libudev-dev libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-image0 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xkb1 libxext-dev libxkbcommon-x11-0 mesa-common-dev nasm ninja-build qt6-base-private-dev libmbedtls-dev catch2 libfmt-dev liblz4-dev nlohmann-json3-dev libzstd-dev libssl-dev libavfilter-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev pkg-config zlib1g-dev libva-dev libvdpau-dev qt6-tools-dev libzydis-dev zydis-tools libzycore-dev libvulkan-dev spirv-tools spirv-headers libusb-1.0-0-dev libxbyak-dev libboost-dev libboost-fiber-dev libboost-context-dev libsdl2-dev libopus-dev libasound2t64 vulkan-utility-libraries-dev

• Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint 20, or Debian 12 or later is required.
• To enable QT Web Engine, add -DYUZU_USE_QT_WEB_ENGINE=ON when running CMake.

AlmaLinux, Fedora, Red Hat Linux

Fedora:

sudo dnf install autoconf cmake fmt-devel gcc{,-c++} glslang hidapi-devel json-devel libtool libusb1-devel libzstd-devel lz4-devel nasm ninja-build openssl-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel qt6-linguist qt6-qtbase{-private,}-devel qt6-qtwebengine-devel qt6-qtmultimedia-devel speexdsp-devel wayland-devel zlib-devel ffmpeg-devel libXext-devel boost jq

AlmaLinux (use YUZU_USE_CPM=ON):

# vvv - Only if RPMfusion is not installed or EPEL isn't either
sudo dnf install epel-release dnf-utils
# (run rpmfusion installation afterwards)
# vvv - This will work for most systems
sudo dnf install autoconf cmake libtool libudev cmake gcc gcc-c++ qt6-qtbase-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel boost SDL2 ffmpeg-devel libdrm glslang jq patch
# Qt6 private GUI must be taken from CRB repos
sudo dnf config-manager --enable crb
sudo dnf install qt6-qtbase-private-devel

• RPM Fusion is required for ffmpeg-devel
• Fedora 32 or later is required.
• Fedora 36+ users with GCC 12 need Clang and should configure CMake with: cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -B build

macOS

Install dependencies from Homebrew

brew install autoconf automake boost ffmpeg fmt glslang hidapi libtool libusb lz4 ninja nlohmann-json openssl pkg-config qt@6 sdl2 speexdsp zlib zstd cmake Catch2 molten-vk vulkan-loader spirv-tools

If you are compiling on Intel Mac, or are using a Rosetta Homebrew installation, you must replace all references of /opt/homebrew with /usr/local.

To run with MoltenVK, install additional dependencies:

brew install molten-vk vulkan-loader

FreeBSD

As root run: pkg install devel/cmake devel/sdl20 devel/boost-libs devel/catch2 devel/libfmt devel/nlohmann-json devel/ninja devel/nasm devel/autoconf devel/pkgconf devel/qt6-base devel/simpleini net/enet multimedia/ffnvcodec-headers multimedia/ffmpeg audio/opus archivers/liblz4 lang/gcc12 graphics/glslang graphics/vulkan-utility-libraries graphics/spirv-tools www/cpp-httplib devel/jwt-cpp devel/unordered-dense devel/zydis

If using FreeBSD 12 or prior, use devel/pkg-config instead.

NetBSD

Install pkgin if not already pkg_add pkgin, see also the general pkgsrc guide. For NetBSD 10.1 provide cat 'PKG_PATH="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/10.0_2025Q3/All/"' >/etc/pkg_install.conf. If pkgin is taking too much time consider adding the following to /etc/rc.conf:

ip6addrctl=YES
ip6addrctl_policy=ipv4_prefer

For NetBSD +10.1: pkgin install git cmake boost fmtlib SDL2 catch2 libjwt spirv-headers ffmpeg7 libva nlohmann-json jq libopus qt6 mbedtls3 cpp-httplib lz4 vulkan-headers nasm autoconf enet pkg-config libusb1.

glslang is not available on NetBSD, to circumvent this simply build glslang by yourself:

pkgin python313
git clone https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang.git
cd glslang
python3.13 ./update_glslang_sources.py
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build -- -j`nproc`
cmake --install build

OpenBSD

pkg_add -u
pkg_add cmake nasm git boost unzip--iconv autoconf-2.72p0 bash ffmpeg glslang gmake llvm-19.1.7p3 qt6 jq fmt nlohmann-json enet boost vulkan-utility-libraries vulkan-headers spirv-headers spirv-tools catch2 sdl2 libusb1-1.0.27

Solaris / OpenIndiana

Always consult the OpenIndiana package list to cross-verify availability.

Run the usual update + install of essential toolings: sudo pkg update && sudo pkg install git cmake.

• gcc: sudo pkg install developer/gcc-14.
• clang: Version 20 is broken, use sudo pkg install developer/clang-19.

Then install the libraries: sudo pkg install qt6 boost glslang libzip library/lz4 libusb-1 nlohmann-json openssl opus sdl2 zlib compress/zstd unzip pkg-config nasm autoconf mesa library/libdrm header-drm developer/fmt.

MSYS2

• Open the MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit shell (mingw64.exe)
• Download and install all dependencies using:
  • pacman -Syu git make mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2 mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pip mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6 mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain autoconf libtool automake-wrapper
• Add MinGW binaries to the PATH:
  • echo 'PATH=/mingw64/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
• Add VulkanSDK to the PATH:
  • echo 'PATH=$(readlink -e /c/VulkanSDK/*/Bin/):$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc

RedoxOS

sudo pkg update && sudo pkg install git cmake
sudo pkg install ffmpeg6 sdl2 zlib llvm18

All Done

You may now return to the root build guide.