Compiling Veloren

This section covers building Veloren from rust source with cargo and running it.

Note: all commands need to be run from the repository.

Required Libraries

On Windows you should be all good.

On Linux you need to have GTK3 installed.

On Debian systems additional libraries may need to be downloaded, below is a non-exhaustive list:

• libglib2.0-dev
• libcairo2-dev
• libasound2-dev
• libpango1.0-dev
• libatk1.0-dev
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
• libgtk-3-dev
• libxcb-shape0-dev
• libxcb-xfixes0-dev

And a one liner to download and install them all:
sudo apt install libglib2.0-dev libasound2-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev

On Fedora you can follow this awesome guide.

Note: Feel free to open an issue incase these dependencies are incorrect.

Compile and Run Veloren

Run this in a terminal to compile and run Veloren:

cargo run

To compile without running, use cargo build instead.

Note: The initial compilation will take from 5min up to 30min therefore grab a tea and some snacks and come back later.

Compile and Run Veloren Server

cargo run --bin veloren-server-cli

Logging output

We use tracing to collect logs. They can be filtered by setting the RUST_LOG environment variable to the respective level (error, warn, info, debug, trace).

For all available filtering options visit the docs.

Tip: this works both for the server and client

Optimized Release builds

By default debug builds are created which compile faster but run a bit slower than optimized release builds. Unlike many other projects, we've set them up so they're fast enough to be playable. If you want to get optimized builds, add the --release flag when calling cargo. Keep in mind that compiling release might be very slow!

If you want get familiar with cargo we recommend the Cargo Book.