This instruction is outdated and will be removed in one of next version, please look at README.md files in each module folder for more up to date instructions.
If you only want the terminal version without a GUI, just skip all the packages with gtk in their names.
FFmpeg is not included here because it is not needed to build - it is dynamically loaded.
Support for heif images is optional and require to install libheif library.
New versions of GTK fixes some bugs, so e.g. middle button selection will work only with GTK >=4.8.
| Program | Min | What for |
|---|---|---|
| Rust | 1.75.0 | The minimum version of rust does not depend on anything, so it can change frequently |
| GTK | 4.6 | Only for the GTK backend |
sudo apt install -y curl git build-essential # Needed by Rust update tool
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh # Download the latest stable Rust
sudo apt install -y libgtk-4-dev
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh # Download the latest stable Rust
sudo yum install gtk4-devel glib2-devel
You need to install Rust via Homebrew, GTK Libraries and optionally heif library(to have support for heic files, which are quite popular on Mac)
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install rustup
rustup-init
brew install gtk4 adwaita-icon-theme librsvg libheif webp-pixbuf-loader
Compiling Czkawka on Windows is possible, but due using GTK is very hard.
In CI we use cross compilation which simplify a lot of things, so for now there is no instruction how to compile native binaries on Windows.
docker build ./misc/docker/ --tag cargo-gtk
Czkawka can be installed with Debug or Release build.
With Debug build additional checks, e.g., variables overflow, are available, but depending on the usage it works very
slow, so it should be used only for development purposes.
Compilation with --release flag will optimize binaries, so they can be used with good performance (official binaries
are built with this flag)
git clone https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka.git
cd czkawka
cargo run --release --bin czkawka_gui
cargo run --release --bin czkawka_cli
docker run -t --rm --volume $PWD:/app --workdir /app cargo-gtk cargo build --release --bin czkawka_gui
Run the binary:
target/release/czkawka_gui
Currently, the only additional dependence is heif image support.
To enable checking for heif images, just add ` –all-features or –features heif`
cargo run --features heif --bin czkawka_cli -- image -d /home/rafal/ -f "results.txt"
Be aware, that heif support is not available on Windows, so you can’t compile it with this feature, because mingw-w64-x86_64-libheif is not available in fedora repos, which are used for cross compilation.