Platform Setup

The local Whisper STT engine compiles whisper.cpp from source. That means bindgen runs on every clean build and needs CMake plus libclang. Pick the block for your operating system below.

macOS

brew install cmake

Apple ships LLVM with the Xcode Command Line Tools, so libclang is already on your machine. Run xcode-select --install if you haven't.

Linux

sudo apt install cmake clang libclang-dev

sudo pacman -S llvm clang cmake

You also need the Tauri v2 Linux prerequisites (WebKitGTK, libssl, etc.). Tauri's installer prints exact apt/pacman commands for your distribution.

Windows

Windows needs an extra build-tools bootstrap before the shared setup pipeline — LLVM/libclang and CMake aren't available out of the box.

1. Install Visual Studio 2022 with the Desktop development with C++ workload (provides MSVC).

2. From the repo root in PowerShell:

   bun install
   bun run setup:windows

   This installs LLVM + CMake via winget and persists LIBCLANG_PATH to your user environment.

3. Close the terminal and open a new one.

4. Continue with the installation guide:

   bun run setup:all
   bun run tauri dev

Verifying the toolchain

A quick way to confirm everything is wired before kicking off setup:all:

bun --version
rustc --version
python3 --version
cmake --version
clang --version

If any command isn't found, jump back to Prerequisites and reinstall.

A successful platform check prints a version string for each command in turn. If any of them prints "command not found", install the missing tool before running setup:all. Click to expand.