Developer Tutorial

This documentation assume you want to contribute to the development of SVision3. If you just want to use it, visit the user tutorial.

If you are just a user, you can ignore this page, and see the api design documentation.

1. Install dependencies with Conan

From the repository root:

Pre-setup on Linux)

• A C++20 compiler (GCC, Clang, or MSVC)
• CMake and Conan 2
• On Linux, harfbuzz and freetype installed via your system package manager (required on every distro, regardless of windowing backend)

conan install --build=missing

Visual Studio (Windows)

MS Visual Studio 2022 is actively tested, but 2026 should work as well. No other setup is needed.

conan install --build=missing

macOS

This platform is untested, feel free to report its status.

conan install --build=missing

2. Configure and build

Ninja / Make (Linux, macOS)

cmake --preset conan-debug
cmake --build build/Debug

Visual Studio (Windows)

You could use the command line:

cmake --preset conan-default
cmake --build --preset conan-Debug\\

Or open Visual Studio, and point it to the directory of your clone. Pressing F5 should bring up the demo of this library.

3. Create a branch and submit a PR

Once you got your fix, or new feature - you should create locally a new branch and push it to your repo. Then - create a PR from your repo.

Next steps

Browse the widget and module reference to see everything available — layouts, widgets, charts, theming, and more.