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 will need Visual Studio Build Tools.

Note: Install "C++ tools" and "Windows 10 SDK", you won't need to install Visual Studio itself so scroll down and open "Tools for Visual Studio <year>" to find the latest buildtools.

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
  • libudev-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 libudev-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.