rpcsx/.github/BUILDING.md

Building

The dependencies for Debian-like distributions.

sudo apt install build-essential cmake libunwind-dev libsox-dev git libasound2-dev nasm g++-14

The dependencies for Fedora distributions:

sudo dnf install cmake libunwind-devel gcc-c++ gcc sox-devel alsa-lib-devel nasm

The dependencies for Arch distributions:

sudo pacman -S libunwind sox git cmake alsa-lib nasm

Cloning the Repo

git clone --recursive https://github.com/RPCSX/rpcsx && cd rpcsx

How to compile the emulator

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_INIT="-march=native" && cmake --build build -j$(nproc)

For Ubuntu 24.04 you need to manually specify compiler version:

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_INIT="-march=native" -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-14 && cmake --build build -j$(nproc)