$ cd ghostty
$ zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
$ ./zig-out/bin/ghostty
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/4b4d4062dfed7b37...
The full script is pretty much:
$ wget https://ziglang.org/download/0.13.0/zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0....
$ tar xvf zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0.tar.xz
$ git clone git@github.com:ghostty-org/ghostty.git
$ cd ghostty
$ ../zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0/zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
$ ./zig-out/bin/ghostty
sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev git
error: unable to spawn glib-compile-resources: FileNotFound
Build Summary: 78/83 steps succeeded; 2 failed (disable with --summary none)
install transitive failure
└─ install ghostty transitive failure
└─ zig build-exe ghostty ReleaseFast native transitive failure
├─ run glib-compile-resources (ghostty_resources.c) failure
└─ run glib-compile-resources (ghostty_resources.h) failure
error: the following build command failed with exit code 1:
/home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/ghostty/.zig-cache/o/57acb02f2b1ccf1b03b9597a8c5f2d09/build /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0/zig /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/ghostty /home/tlhunter/Downloads/ghosttty/ghostty/.zig-cache /home/tlhunter/.cache/zig --seed 0xb4306e7d -Z11426c6f3a70c8b9 -Doptimize=ReleaseFastI'm quite surprised they don't provide a .deb package as that checks off 90% of Linux users.