Getting Started

Prerequisites

On all platforms, you must download and install Go from the Go website if you do not already have Go 1.18+ installed.

MacOS

1. Install the xcode command-line tools if you don’t already have them by running xcode-select --install
2. If you don’t already have the Vulkan SDK installed, install it by doing the following:
   • Run curl -O https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/latest/mac/vulkan_sdk.dmg
   • Run open vulkan_sdk.dmg
   • Double click InstallVulkan.app
   • Follow the installation prompts and ignore all warnings about the Vulkan Portability Enumeration extension

Windows

1. Download and install Git for Windows from the git website if you don’t already have it. You should install Git Bash as part of this process and use it for development.
2. Download and install TDM-GCC from this website
3. Open Windows Command Prompt and run cd C:\TDM-GCC-64
4. Then, run mingwvars.bat

Linux

• If you are on Ubuntu or Debian, run sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev
• If you are on CentOS or Fedora, run sudo dnf install libX11-devel libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel mesa-libGL-devel libXi-devel libXxf86vm-devel

Installation

Clone the Gi repository by running git clone https://github.com/goki/gi

Try it out!

4. Navigate to the widgets example by running cd gi/examples/widgets
5. Build the widgets example by running go build
6. Run the widgets example by running ./widgets if you are on MacOS or Linux and ./widgets.exe if you are on Windows. This should create a window with a variety of widgets, similar to the screenshot below: