Installation

Installing a binary

Difftastic provides GitHub releases with prebuilt binaries.

Packages are also available on the following platforms.

Packaging status

Installing from source

Build Requirements

Difftastic is written in Rust, so you will need Rust installed. I recommend rustup to install Rust. Difftastic requires Rust version 1.56 or later.

You will also need a C++ compiler that supports C++14. If you're using GCC, you need at least version 8.

Build

You can download and build difftastic on crates.io with Cargo (which is part of Rust).

$ cargo install difftastic

Difftastic uses the cc crate for building C/C++ dependencies. This allows you to use environment variables CC and CXX to control the compiler used (see the cc docs).

See contributing for instructions on debug builds.