Building

The following instructions are only relevant for those who want to develop the orca runtime or orca cli tool.

Requirements

All of the installation requirements for regular users also apply for developers, with these additions:

• Zig 0.15.2
• Python 3.10 or newer (this is only needed to build the documentation and run some helper scripts, not to build Orca itself)

Building from source

First clone the orca repo: git clone https://github.com/orca-app/orca.git

Building Orca

The build system is setup as a one-click system to build everything needed and install it to the system orca directory:

cd path/to/orca
zig build

Installing a dev version of the tooling and SDK

The output of the build process is in the zig-out folder. On macOS, this is an application bundle name Orca.app. On Windows, this is a folder named orca containing the executable and the DLLs and resources needed to run it. Make sure the path to the Orca executable is in your PATH environment variable. Note that on macOS, the command line executable is inside the app bundle, in Orca.app/Contents/macOS.