The MartyPC Desktop frontend can be built targeting Windows, Linux, and MacOS
It may be possible to build on other platforms; please consider contributing instructions if you do.
The first step to building MartyPC is installing Rust on your system. Visit the installation instructions at rust-lang.org and follow the instructions for installing Rust for your platform.
Next, make sure you have git installed. If you need to install it, you can use your system's package manager, or install Git directly.
- Make sure you have installed the MSVC build tools
- You don't need to install the entire Visual Studio community edition, but you can as an alternative to installing build tools.
- When installing the build tools, you can select the C++ build option to reduce the amount of disk space you need.
- Open a command prompt
cd
to an appropriate directory (git will make a new subdirectory here when you clone the MartyPC repo)- Clone the repository
- Type
git clone https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc.git
- Type
- Type
cd martypc/install
- Type
cargo run -r --features ega
(features may vary - see Cargo.toml for a list)
Building for Linux follows the same basic process, but you must have several development dependencies installed. How you install them depends on your particular distribution.
-
Assuming a minimal install:
- Install git
sudo apt install git
- Install curl
sudo apt install curl
- Install build tools
sudo apt build-essential
- Install Rust by running the command shown on the install page linked above. As of this writing, it is:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
- Proceed with defaults to install Rust in your home directory
- Open a new shell to set new environment variables
- Install the following development dependencies with
sudo apt install [packagename]
pkg-config
libasound2-dev
libudev-dev
cd
to an appropriate directory- Clone the martypc repo
git clone https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc.git
cd martypc/install
- Build MartyPC!
cargo run -r
- Install git
- Open a Terminal window
cd
to an appropriate directory- clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc.git
cd
into the /install directory in the newly cloned repository- type
cargo run -r --features ega
(features may vary - see Cargo.toml for a list)
- IDEs
- If you'd like to use a IDE, I recommend RustRover, which is currently free during EAP. I currently maintain build configurations for RustRover.
- You can also use Visual Studio Code, but I haven't been updating the build configurations in a while, so you may need to update things. Please send a pull request for anything you have to fix.
- Pull Requests
- PRs are welcome! Just be sure that you describe them well and have thoroughly tested them. Please open an issue or discussion before developing any major new functionality or feature.
- Please respect the configured rustfmt settings - I recommend configuring your editor or IDE to perform rustfmt on save.