Building appleseed

This page will guide you through the process of building appleseed from source.

We have tried to be as detailed and as explicit as possible about what steps need to be carried out to build appleseed and the various third party libraries it depends on, so please follow them closely.

If, despite following closely these instructions, you have difficulties building appleseed and you need help, join our Discord server and state your problem as precisely as possible in the #compiling channel.

We appreciate feedback! Please report unclear or outdated instructions, errors, omissions and typos on Discord, on our forum or via email.

Please proceed to the instructions corresponding to your platform:

• Building appleseed on Windows
• Building appleseed on Linux
• Building appleseed on macOS