From 778c24211ca5d81e6793e8261e166313df643aec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:04:37 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Link to requires system libraries for dev.sh --- docs/build.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/build.rst b/docs/build.rst index 8f70ce0f4..90685db55 100644 --- a/docs/build.rst +++ b/docs/build.rst @@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ That's it, kitty will be built from source, magically. You can run it as This works, because the :code:`./dev.sh build` command downloads all the major dependencies of kitty as pre-built binaries for your platform and builds kitty -to use these rather than system libraries. +to use these rather than system libraries. The few required system libraries +are mostly X11 and DBUS on Linux, as can be seen in the `linux-dev +`__ +CI job. If you make changes to kitty code, simply re-run :code:`./dev.sh build` to build kitty with your changes.