Requirements

Using Erbsland Core

To build an application with Erbsland Core you need:

• A compiler and standard library with C++20 support.

• CMake 3.28 or newer.

• Git when integrating Core as the recommended Git submodule.

• A supported desktop or server platform: Linux, macOS, or Windows.

Core has no required third-party runtime or library dependencies beyond the C++ standard library.

Ninja is optional. The documentation uses it in commands because it is fast and behaves consistently across the supported platforms, but another CMake generator can be used instead. Omit -G Ninja when you want CMake to select its default generator.

Developing Erbsland Core

Contributors who build Core itself additionally need:

• Python 3.14 for the repository utilities.

• The recursively initialized unit-test submodule.

• The Python development packages pinned in utilities/requirements-dev.txt.

• Ninja for the documented development build.

Building the Sphinx documentation also requires the packages pinned in doc/requirements-doc.txt and a working Doxygen installation. The repository setup utility creates .venv, installs the Python packages, initializes the test dependency, and configures the debug build:

$ python3.14 utilities/run.py dev_setup

See guidelines/index for the contributor documentation and usage/build-configuration for all supported Core build options.