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Building Zed for Windows

Note

The following commands may be executed in any shell.

Repository

Clone down the Zed repository.

Install Rust. If it's already installed, make sure it's up-to-date:
```
rustup update
```
Install the Rust wasm toolchain:
```
rustup target add wasm32-wasi
```
Install Visual Studio with optional component MSVC v*** - VS YYYY C++ x64/x86 build tools and install Windows 11 or 10 SDK depending on your system

Note

v*** is your VS version and YYYY is year when your VS was released.

Warning

This section is still in development. The instructions are not yet complete.

If you are developing collaborative features of Zed, you'll need to install the dependencies of zed's collab server:

Alternatively, if you have Docker installed you can bring up all the collab dependencies using Docker Compose:

docker compose up -d

Once you have the dependencies installed, you can build Zed using Cargo.

For a debug build:

cargo run

For a release build:

cargo run --release

And to run the tests:

cargo test --workspace

Before reporting the issue, make sure that you have the latest rustc version with rustup update.

Try cargo clean and cargo build.