Set up Druid

This tutorial assumes basic familliarity with Rust and a working setup with the basic tooling like Rustup and Cargo. This tutorial will use stable Rust (v1.39.0 at the time of writing) and the latest released version of Druid.

This tutorial will first walk you through setting up the dependencies for developing a Druid application, then it will show you how to set up a basic application, build it and run it.

Setting up Druid dependencies

In addition to including the druid library in your project

Linux

On Linux, Druid requires gtk+3.

On Ubuntu this can be installed with

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev

On Fedora

sudo dnf install gtk3-devel glib2-devel

See GTK installation page for more installation instructions.

Starting a project

Starting a project is as easy as creating an empty application with

cargo new my-application

and adding the druid dependency to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
druid = "0.7.0"
// or to be on the bleeding edge:
druid = { git = "https://github.com/linebender/druid.git" }

This book is written against the latest code on git, so some examples may not work with 0.7.0.