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Compiling for Linux, *BSD

See also

This page describes how to compile Linux editor and export template binaries from source. If you're looking to export your project to Linux instead, read Exporting for Linux.

Requirements

For compiling under Linux or other Unix variants, the following is required:

  • GCC 7+ or Clang 6+.

  • Python 3.6+.

  • SCons 3.0+ build system. If your distribution uses Python 2 by default, or you are using a version of SCons prior to 3.1.2, you will need to change the version of Python that SCons uses by changing the shebang (the first line) of the SCons script file to #! /usr/bin/python3. Use the command which scons to find the location of the SCons script file.

  • pkg-config (used to detect the dependencies below).

  • X11, Xcursor, Xinerama, Xi and XRandR development libraries.

  • MesaGL development libraries.

  • ALSA development libraries.

  • PulseAudio development libraries.

  • Optional - libudev (build with udev=yes).

See also

To get the Godot source code for compiling, see Getting the source.

For a general overview of SCons usage for Godot, see Introduction to the buildsystem.

Distro-specific one-liners

Alpine Linux

 
apk add scons pkgconf gcc g++ libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev libxrandr-dev \
    mesa-dev libexecinfo-dev eudev-dev alsa-lib-dev pulseaudio-dev

Arch Linux

 
pacman -S --needed scons pkgconf gcc libxcursor libxinerama libxi libxrandr mesa glu libglvnd \
    alsa-lib pulseaudio

Debian / Ubuntu

 
sudo apt-get install build-essential scons pkg-config libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxinerama-dev \
    libgl1-mesa-dev libglu-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libudev-dev libxi-dev libxrandr-dev

Fedora

 
sudo dnf install scons pkgconfig libX11-devel libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel \
    libXi-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel alsa-lib-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel \
    libudev-devel gcc-c++ libstdc++-static libatomic-static

FreeBSD

 
sudo pkg install py37-scons pkgconf xorg-libraries libXcursor libXrandr libXi xorgproto libGLU \
    alsa-lib pulseaudio

Gentoo

 
emerge -an dev-util/scons x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXcursor x11-libs/libXinerama x11-libs/libXi \
    media-libs/mesa media-libs/glu media-libs/alsa-lib media-sound/pulseaudio

Mageia

 
urpmi scons task-c++-devel pkgconfig "pkgconfig(alsa)" "pkgconfig(glu)" "pkgconfig(libpulse)" \
    "pkgconfig(udev)" "pkgconfig(x11)" "pkgconfig(xcursor)" "pkgconfig(xinerama)" "pkgconfig(xi)" \
    "pkgconfig(xrandr)"

OpenBSD

 
pkg_add python scons llvm

openSUSE

 
sudo zypper install scons pkgconfig libX11-devel libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel \
        libXi-devel Mesa-libGL-devel alsa-devel libpulse-devel libudev-devel gcc-c++ libGLU1

NetBSD

 
pkg_add pkg-config py37-scons

For audio support, you can optionally install pulseaudio.

Solus

 
sudo eopkg install -c system.devel scons libxcursor-devel libxinerama-devel libxi-devel \
    libxrandr-devel mesalib-devel libglu alsa-lib-devel pulseaudio-devel

Compiling

Start a terminal, go to the root dir of the engine source code and type:

scons platform=linuxbsd

Note

Prior to Godot 4.0, the Linux/*BSD target was called x11 instead of linuxbsd. If you are looking to compile Godot 3.x, make sure to use the stable branch of this documentation.

If all goes well, the resulting binary executable will be placed in the "bin" subdirectory. This executable file contains the whole engine and runs without any dependencies. Executing it will bring up the project manager.

Note

If you wish to compile using Clang rather than GCC, use this command:

scons platform=linuxbsd use_llvm=yes

Using Clang appears to be a requirement for OpenBSD, otherwise fonts would not build.

Note

If you are compiling Godot for production use, then you can make the final executable smaller and faster by adding the SCons options target=template_release production=yes.

If you are compiling Godot with GCC, you can make the binary even smaller and faster by adding the SCons option use_lto=yes. As link-time optimization is a memory-intensive process, this will require about 7 GB of available RAM while compiling.

Note

If you want to use separate editor settings for your own Godot builds and official releases, you can enable Self-contained mode