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Prerequisites

In order to get started building your project with Xiroth, you’ll first need to install a few dependencies:

System Dependencies

Click your operating system’s link to get started:

Android

Stub, still being worked on

  • 20 GB of android studio
  • A supercomputer paired with a quantum computer capable of breaking encryption
  • 40 TB of ram
  • Multiple (99999) M.2 NVMe SSDs in a RAID0 configuration
  • qemu

Linux

Xiroth only has one system dependency- support three different versions, that being webkit[2]GTK:

  • webkit2gtk-4.0
  • webkit2gtk-4.1
  • webkitgtk-6.0

These may be different depending on your distribution but we’ve included some popular distributions below to help you get setup.

pacman -S webkit2gtk-4.0 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.0
pacman -S webkit2gtk-4.1 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.1
pacman -S webkitgtk-6.0 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkitgtk-6.0
apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.0
apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.1
apt install libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkitgtk-6.0
dnf install webkit2gtk4.0-devel # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.0
dnf install webkit2gtk4.1-devel # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.1
dnf install webkitgtk6.0-devel # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkitgtk-6.0
emerge --ask net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.0
emerge --ask net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.0 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.1
emerge --ask net-libs/webkit-gtk:6.0 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkitgtk-6.0
apk add webkit2gtk # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.0
apk add webkit2gtk-4.1 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.1
apk add webkit2gtk-6.0 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkitgtk-6.0
 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.0
 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.1
 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkitgtk-6.0

using nix-shell:

let
  pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { };
in
pkgs.mkShell {
  nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
    zig
  ];

  buildInputs = with pkgs;[
      # Add webkit2gtk stuff here later
  ];
}

You can use an specific version of webkit[2]gtk via the configuration file but by default, Xiroth will use webkit2gtk-4.1.

FreeBSD

FreeBSD, Like Linux, also uses webkit[2]gtk, but this time with two versions to choose from:

pkg install webkit2-gtk3 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkit2gtk-4.1
# ^ Not sure if it's specifically 4.1, check later.
pkg install webkit2-gtk4 # If you're planning to develop to your application with webkitgtk-6.0

macOS

placeholder, buy me a macbook

Windows

placeholder, this should be easy, just msvc download et al. Work on this later lmao.

Last Edited: August 12, 2025
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