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Building

A Makefile drives the build. make help lists every target.

Prerequisites

  • Rust (stable)
  • cmake and ninja
  • macOS: brew install llvm (for libclang)
  • Linux: GTK + X dev packages (libgtk-3-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxtst-dev)
  • Windows: Visual Studio (MSVC) + LLVM; build from a vcvars64 shell

make check-deps verifies the base tools.

Backends

make cef        # CEF backend (downloads + builds the CEF dll wrapper first)
make webview    # system WebView backend (WebKitGTK / WebView2)
make winit      # windowing-only backend, no web engine
make all        # everything

make cef runs make cef-deps, which downloads the pinned CEF build into vendor/cef/ and builds libcef_dll_wrapper. The CEF version is pinned at the top of the Makefile (CEF_VERSION). Re-download with make clean-cef-vendor.

Host OS/arch and the matching CEF archive are detected automatically.

Runtimes

make runtimes   # builds the hello + ddcore example runtimes

A runtime is a shared library linked against the capi crate; a backend loads it at startup (see architecture.md).

Formatting, linting, tests

make fmt        # cargo fmt + deno fmt + clang-format
make fmt-check
make lint       # cargo clippy + deno lint
cargo test -p laufey --lib

Output

Backends build under each backend dir’s build/ (cef/build, webview/build). make clean removes build artifacts; make clean-cef-vendor drops the downloaded CEF.