An unofficial PKGBUILD of Citra is available for Arch Linux on the AUR.
Dependencies:
You'll need to download and install the following to build Citra:
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- Deb:
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev - Arch:
pacman -S sdl2 - Fedora:
sudo dnf install SDL2-devel - OpenSUSE:
zypper in libSDL2-devel
- Deb:
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OpenSSL (optional)
- Deb:
sudo apt install libssl-dev - Arch:
pacman -S openssl-1.0 - Fedora:
sudo dnf install openssl-devel - OpenSUSE:
zypper in openssl-devel
- Deb:
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Qt 6.2+
- Only 6.2+ versions are tested. Lower version might or might not work. See the section Install new Qt version below if your distro does not provide a sufficient version of Qt
- Deb:
sudo apt install qt6-base-dev qt6-base-private-dev qt6-multimedia-dev- You may also need
apt install qt6-l10n-tools qt6-tools-dev qt6-tools-dev-toolsto build with translation support - You may also need
apt install libgl-devif you run into WrapOpenGL issues while configuring with CMake.
- You may also need
- Arch:
pacman -S qt6-base qt6-multimedia qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg- You will also need to install a multimedia backend, either
qt6-multimedia-ffmpegorqt6-multimedia-gstreamer.
- You will also need to install a multimedia backend, either
- Fedora:
sudo dnf install qt6-qtbase-devel qt6-qtbase-private-devel qt6-qtmultimedia-devel - OpenSUSE:
zypper in qt6-base qt6-multimedia
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- Deb:
sudo apt install libasound-dev - Fedora:
sudo dnf install portaudio-devel - OpenSUSE Leap 15:
zypper in portaudio-devel - OpenSUSE Tumbleweed:
zypper in portaudio-devel
- Deb:
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- Deb:
sudo apt install xorg-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev - Fedora:
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-server-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel - OpenSUSE Leap 15:
zypper in xorg-x11-util-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel - OpenSUSE Tumbleweed:
zypper in xorg-x11-util-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel
- Deb:
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- Deb:
sudo apt install jackd - Fedora:
sudo dnf install jack-audio-connection-kit-devel - OpenSUSE Leap 15:
zypper in libjack-devel - OpenSUSE Tumbleweed:
zypper in libjack-devel
- Deb:
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- Deb:
sudo apt install libpipewire-0.3-dev - Fedora:
sudo dnf install pipewire-devel - OpenSUSE Leap 15:
zypper in pipewire-devel - OpenSUSE Tumbleweed:
zypper in pipewire-devel
- Deb:
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Optional dependencies
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- Deb:
sudo apt install libsndio-dev - Fedora:
sudo dnf -y copr enable andykimpe/shadow && sudo dnf -y install sndio - OpenSUSE Leap 15:
zypper in sndio-devel - OpenSUSE Tumbleweed:
zypper in sndio-devel
- Deb:
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Optional dependencies
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- Deb:
echo "esound require build use source code https://download.gnome.org/sources/esound/" - Fedora:
sudo dnf install esound-devel - OpenSUSE Leap 15:
zypper in libesd0-devel - OpenSUSE Tumbleweed:
zypper in libesd0-devel
- Deb:
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Compiler: GCC or Clang. You only need one of these two:
- GCC 11.0+.
- Deb:
apt install build-essential - Arch:
pacman -S base-devel - Fedora:
dnf install gcc-c++ - OpenSUSE:
zypper in gcc-c++
- Deb:
- Clang 15.0+
- Deb:
apt install clang clang-format libc++-dev- Note for Ubuntu users: Clang 15 is available only from 22.10 onward. For earlier distro versions, see: https://apt.llvm.org/
- Arch:
pacman -S clang,libc++is in the AUR. Use pacaur or yaourt to install it. - Fedora:
dnf install clang libcxx-devel - OpenSUSE:
zypper in clang
- Deb:
- GCC 11.0+.
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CMake 3.20+
- Deb:
apt install cmake - Arch:
pacman -S cmake - Fedora:
dnf install cmake - OpenSUSE:
zypper in cmake extra-cmake-modules
- Deb:
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Note on Boost library: you don't need to install Boost library on your system, because citra provides a bundled trimmed Boost library. However, if you already have Boost library installed on your system, please make sure its version is at least 1.66 (which contains a bug fix for GCC 7), otherwise compilation would fail.
Cloning Citra in Git:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/citra-emu/citra
cd citra
The --recursive option automatically clones the required Git submodules too.
Building Citra in Debug Mode (Slow):
Using gcc:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
cmake --build . -- -j"$(nproc)"
sudo make install (optional)
Optionally, you can use "cmake -i .." to adjust various options (e.g. disable the Qt GUI).
Using clang:
Note: It is important you use libc++, otherwise your build will likely fail:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++-5.0 \
-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-5.0 \
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O2 -g -stdlib=libc++"
cmake --build . -- -j"$(nproc)"
sudo make install (optional)
If you get a weird compile error related to std::span conversions, make sure you are using clang and libc++ 15 or up. This is an issue with libc++ 14.
Building Citra in Release Mode (Optimized):
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build . -- -j"$(nproc)"
sudo make install (optional)
Building with debug symbols:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
cmake --build . -- -j"$(nproc)"
sudo make install (optional)
Running without installing:
After building, the binaries citra, citra-qt and citra-room (depending on your build options) will end up in build/bin/.
# SDL
cd build/bin/
./citra
# Qt
cd build/bin/
./citra-qt
# Dedicated room
cd build/bin/
./citra-room
Debugging:
cd data
gdb ../build/bin/citra-qt
(gdb) run
<crash>
(gdb) bt
Install new Qt version
If your distribution's version of Qt is too old, there are a few places you may be able to find newer versions.
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This Ubuntu PPA contains backports of Qt 6 to various older versions: https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/qt-6-2
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This unofficial CLI installer allows downloading and installing the latest first-party builds of Qt to your system (whether it works against your distribution may vary): https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall