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Requires qt6-static, obviously... at least for eden. eden-cli also can be built fully static Notable challenges n such: 1. VkMemAlloc conflicts with Qt, since it embeds vk_mem_alloc.h in qrhivulkan; we can get around this by conditionally defining VMA_IMPLEMENTATION; that is, define it in the SDL2 frontend and undef it in the Qt frontend. It's not ideal, but I mean... it works, no? 2. find_library, pkgconfig, and some Config modules will always look for a .dll, so we have to tell CMake to look for .a 3. In spite of this, some will end up using .dll.a (implib) as their link targets; this is, well, bad, so we create a find_library hook that rejects dll.a 4. Some libraries have specific configs (boost lol) 5. Some libraries use _static targets (zstd, mbedtls) 6. Some extra libraries need to be linked, i.e. jbig, lzma, etc 7. QuaZip is sad Needs testing on all platforms, and for both frontends on desktop, to ensure Vulkan still works as expected. (also: CI). Resulting executables are: - 71MB for eden.exe - 39MB for eden-cli.exe Considering the entire libicudt is included (thanks Qt), that's a great size all things considered. No need to bundle all those plugins and translation files too. Theoretically, this lays the groundwork towards fully static executables for other platforms too; though Linux doesn't have a huge benefit since AppImages are needed regardless. eden-room though maybe? Fixes comp for clangarm64 because -msse4.1 Also allows macOS to build with qt6-static. macOS can't build static executables, but with these changes it ONLY relies on system libraries like libc and frameworks. So in theory we don't even need macdeployqt. Signed-off-by: crueter <crueter@eden-emu.dev> Reviewed-on: https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden/pulls/2994
Eden
Eden is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator, forked from the Yuzu emulator — started by former Citron developer Camille LaVey and the Eden team. It is written in C++ with portability in mind, and we actively maintain builds for Windows, Linux and Android.
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Compatibility
The emulator is capable of running most commercial games at full speed, provided you meet the necessary hardware requirements.
A list of supported games will be available in future. Please be patient.
Check out our website for the latest news on exciting features, monthly progress reports, and more!
Development
Most of the development happens on our Git server. It is also where our central repository is hosted. For development discussions, please join us on Discord or Revolt. You can also follow us on X (Twitter) for updates and announcements.
If you would like to contribute, we are open to new developers and pull requests. Please ensure that your work is of a high standard and properly documented. You can also contact any of the developers on Discord or Revolt to learn more about the current state of the emulator.
See the sign-up instructions for information on registration.
Alternatively, if you wish to add translations, go to the Eden project on Transifex and review the translations README.
Building
See the General Build Guide
For information on provided development tooling, see the Tools directory
Download
You can download the latest releases from here.
Support
If you enjoy the project and would like to support us financially, please check out our developers' donation pages!
Any donations received will go towards things such as:
- Switch consoles to explore and reverse-engineer the hardware
- Switch games for testing, reverse-engineering, and implementing new features
- Web hosting and infrastructure setup
- Additional hardware (e.g. GPUs as needed to improve rendering support, other peripherals to add support for, etc.)
- CI Infrastructure
If you would prefer to support us in a different way, please join our Discord and talk to Camille or any of our other developers.
License
Eden is licensed under the GPLv3 (or any later version). Refer to the LICENSE.txt file.