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Getting Started 🛠️

Getting Access

In order to get access to Hazel source code and make use of the page below you have to make sure you are a Patreon Supporter III or above. This is the best way of supporting the development of Hazel and it's technologies.

Requirements

One of our goals is to make Hazel as easy as possible to build - if you're having any difficulties or weird errors, please let us know. We currently only support building on Windows 10 and Windows 11 with Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio 2019 is no longer supported. The minimum supported version of Visual Studio 2022 is 17.2.0, Hazel may not compile on versions before that. You also need the following installed:

Here you'll find a list of all the third-party tools and SDKs that you'll need to install in order to build Hazel:

Make sure that you add everything except for the .NET Framework SDK to your PATH environment variable. Most likely the installers will give you the option to so automatically.

Hazel also (experimentally) supports Linux, please see Hazel on Linux for more information.

Building and Running

The following information is for Windows only. For information on getting started with Hazel on Linux -- please see Hazel on Linux

Assuming that's all installed and ready to go, you can proceed with the following:

  1. Clone the repository: git clone --recursive https://github.com/StudioCherno/Hazel
  2. Run Scripts/Setup.bat - this will setup the current repository as your active Hazel installation and generate project files so you can build Hazel
  3. Open Hazel.sln (in the root of the repository) and build the entire solution in either Debug or Release x64 (Build -> Build Solution). You can then run the Hazelnut project which should be your startup project. By default, this will load the Sandbox project found in Hazelnut/SandboxProject/Sandbox.hproj

.NET SDK

Hazel makes use of C# as a scripting language, and because of that we also provide a "Hazel-ScriptCore" project, which contains Hazels C# API. This however means that in order to build Hazel you need to have the .NET SDK installed. Hazel makes use of .NET 8.0, and all projects that are made in Hazel also use that specific version.

If you're using Visual Studio to build Hazel you'll have to open the Visual Studio Installer program, and make sure you've selected the ".NET desktop development" workload from the "Workloads" tab, you can find an example of this in the image below.

DotNETSDKInstallation

You may be required to restart your computer after installing the workload.

Vulkan

Hazel requires Vulkan SDK 1.3.204.1 to be installed, and the VULKAN_SDK environment variable set to your installation path. If you do not have the correct version installed, the Setup script should offer to download and install the correct version for you.

The Vulkan SDK installer now offers to download and install shader debug libraries - you must install these libraries if you would like to build Hazel in the Debug configuration. To do so, simply check the (Optional) Debuggable Shader API Libraries - 64 bit option in the Select Components part of the installer, as seen in the image below.

VulkanSDKInstaller

You can also download and install the Vulkan SDK manually if you wish, or if the Setup scripts have failed.

Pulling the latest code

The master branch is required to always be stable, so there should never be any build errors or major faults. Once you've pulled the latest code, remember to run Scripts/Setup.bat again to make sure that any new files or configuration changes will be applied to your local environment.

Supported Platforms

Here you can find a list of the platforms that Hazel currently supports.

If you can't find the platform you're looking for on this page you should assume that Hazel does not currently, and most likely never will, support that platform.

Fully Supported

These are the platforms that Hazel has been tested on, and we've determined that Hazel should run without any serious problems.

If you find an issue relating to any of these platforms please open an issue here: https://github.com/StudioCherno/Hazel/issues

  • Windows 10 (64-bit)
  • Windows 11 (64-bit)

NOTE: Hazel currently only considers 64-bit Windows versions supported, and it's unlikely that 32-bit support will ever be added

Experimental Support

These are platforms whose support is still in active development. Expect some instability or shortcomings in workflow.

As above, please consider reporting any issues you encounter.

  • Linux Based Systems

Unsupported Platforms

These are platforms that Hazel most likely won't work on.

  • Windows 7
  • MacOS

Supported Editors + Toolchains

Hazel will in theory support any IDE or toolchain that https://premake.github.io/docs/Using-Premake#using-premake-to-generate-project-files supports, however we've only tested the toolchains/IDEs listed below.

  • Visual Studio 2022
  • CodeLite