Development

VDS is written in Rust and shaders are written in WGSL.

Make sure you are using the latest version of stable rust by running rustup update. VDS requires a proper graphics driver that provides at least one of the supported graphics APIs.

Building from Source for Native

Run it locally with cargo run --release.

On Linux you need to first run:

sudo apt-get install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxkbcommon-dev libssl-dev

On Fedora Rawhide you need to run:

dnf install clang clang-devel clang-tools-extra libxkbcommon-devel pkg-config openssl-devel libxcb-devel gtk3-devel atk fontconfig-devel

Building for Web

The website build compiles VDS to WebAssembly, generates its browser module, builds the documentation, and bundles the React site:

1. Install wasm-bindgen-cli and mdbook at the versions used by CI.
2. Run npm install in website/.
3. Run npm run build for a production build or npm run dev for a local server.