Linix building

Minimum required packages:

g++ make pkg-config libgtk-3-dev libcanberra-gtk-module libgl-dev libasound2-dev

Additional Audio Drivers

ares supports additional audio drivers besides the ALSA drivers included above. Installing these additional packages will allow them to be selected in Settings > Drivers:
libao-dev libopenal-dev

GTK2 & GTK3

By default, GTK3 is used, but support for GTK2 is available. You will need to install the additional package libgtk2.0-dev as well as specifying the command line option hiro=gtk2 at compile time.

SDL2 for input

If you would like to use SDL for input (e.g. for using a controller), you will need to install the libsdl2-dev and libsdl2-2.0-0 packages and perform a clean build of ares. You should then be able to select SDL for input in the Settings > Drivers menu.

Building with clang

clang++ is now the preferred compiler for ares. If clang is detected on Windows/macOS/BSD, it will be selected by default. On Linux and other platforms, g++ remains the default if present. To build with clang, it is necessary to install both the clang and lld packages. If you would like to manually specify a compiler, you can use the following option: compiler=[g++|clang++]

Librashader Support

If you do not want to include librashader support, you can pass the following option to the make command to skip these requirements using: librashader=false

Librashader requires rust in order to build. You can install it with the following command:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source ~/.cargo/env
rustup toolchain install nightly

In order to build librashader, change into the ares/thirdparty/librashader directory and run the script build-librashader.sh Note that once the build completes, it will instruct you to run three copy commands to install the library on your system. These paths may be different depending on Linux distribution.