Building From Source Desktop

Building the Photosphere Desktop App from Source

This guide is for developers who want to build the desktop app from source. Most users should install a published release instead. See Installation-Desktop.

Prerequisites

• Bun
• Git
• The media processing tools FFmpeg and ImageMagick (see Required-Tools)

Run in development

# Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:ashleydavis/photosphere.git
cd photosphere

# Install dependencies (from the repo root)
bun install

# Launch the desktop app in development mode (from the repo root)
bun run dev

Build a distributable package

To bundle the app and produce installers and archives with electron-builder (from the repo root):

bun run build

The packaged output is written to the electron-builder output directory (apps/desktop/dist/ by default).

Next Steps

• Getting-Started-Desktop - Using the desktop app
• Configuration-Desktop - Desktop configuration options