Installing Prerequisites

Set up your machine's environment to build with Ultralight.

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Windows
macOS
Linux

Before building the samples or using the SDK you'll need a couple standard build tools on your machine.

Windows

Visual Studio 2022 or later with the "Desktop development with C++" workload selected
CMake 3.15 or newer (added to your PATH during setup)

macOS

macOS 11.3 or later
Xcode, or install Xcode's Command Line Tools if you prefer not to use an IDE
CMake 3.15 or newer (via Homebrew or otherwise)

Linux

C++20 compiler (GCC 11 or newer, or recent Clang), or if you're using the C API, any C17 compiler works
CMake 3.15 or newer (via apt or otherwise)
If building the platform sources, you can install dependencies on Ubuntu via sudo apt install libx11-dev libxext-dev libfontconfig1-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libpulse-dev