Windows was previously only compile-checked. With Wine 11 (staging)
and mingw available, scripts/windows-wine-test.sh (`just
test-windows-wine`) builds expat/FreeType/fontconfig for mingw under
target/wine-deps and runs the test suites of ghostty-vt, unicode,
datastruct, input, os, config, terminal, crash, termio and cli under
Wine (~2,700 tests). New termio/tests/exec_windows.rs drives real
cmd.exe children over ConPTY through Termio (output, exit codes,
typing, 120 KiB writes, stop, start failure). Fixes found: Windows
paths from fs::canonicalize leaked the \\?\ prefix (new
ghostty_os::path::realpath strips it like Zig); ghostty-font compiles
hb-ft for bundled HarfBuzz on Windows; ~25 tests had Unix assumptions.
Wine limitations are ignored with reasons (ResizePseudoConsole stub,
no POSIX rename over existing files) - docs/rewrite/notes/windows-wine.md.
+list-themes preview parity (former KNOWN_DIFFERENCES rows 5-9): the
search box ports vaxis TextInput (word navigation and editing bindings,
grapheme-wise editing), ASCII-only case folding, light initial colors
until terminal reports arrive (no COLORFGBG), and load errors end the
preview with exit 1; PTY tests compare with /usr/bin/ghostty.
Test Plan:
- just test-windows-wine
- cargo test -p ghostty-cli --test list_themes_pty
- cargo test --workspace --no-fail-fast (3601 passed)
Resolves the parity items of docs/rewrite/notes/review-rv17-codex.md
(final-Z20.md):
- FreeType-only font backend is also available on Apple targets
(discovery-free, embedded emoji fonts); ghostty_surface_quicklook_font
returns null for every backend except plain CoreText like Zig.
- The +list-fonts test keys off the font crate's selected backend
(HAS_DISCOVERY), correct under feature unification and on Apple.
- Inspector font: 32 px rasterized with FreeType (dear-imgui freetype)
like Ghostty; a new `visual-parity.sh inspector` scenario shows 0.031%
differing pixels (hover highlight) vs the original on Linux. Windows,
Apple and wasm keep stb_truetype at 32 px (registered as a deliberate
deviation).
- Inspector DCS/APC descriptions follow Zig 0.15.2's formatting
(checked by running Zig), incl. the terminal.Parser.Action prefix.
- The ImGui demo window appears only in dev-profile builds, mirroring
Zig's .Debug-only gate.
Test Plan:
- cargo test --workspace --no-fail-fast (3582 passed)
- just check-macos (both, also with --features font-backend-freetype)
- scripts/visual-parity.sh inspector
Ghostty can be built with -Dfont-backend=freetype, which uses FreeType
without any font discovery. The Rust port only had fontconfig+freetype
(default on Linux) and the CoreText variants. The new cargo feature
`font-backend-freetype` on ghostty-font (forwarded by ghostty-cli and
the root crate; non-Apple, non-wasm targets) behaves like Zig's mode:
font-family discovery, fallback search and codepoint-map overrides are
skipped (embedded fonts only); +list-fonts and +show-face print Zig's
"built without a font discovery mechanism" message and exit 1; +version
reports `.freetype`. The default backend is unchanged.
Also registers the Rust-only benchmark tooling extensions (--time,
--handler=full, ghostty-synthetic +sgr) in DEVIANT_FIXES.md.
Note: `--all-features` now selects this backend for the workspace.
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-font --features font-backend-freetype (198)
- cargo build --features font-backend-freetype && ghostty +list-fonts
Resolves the 3 P3 items in docs/rewrite/notes/review-rv12-codex.md
(final-Z15.md):
- Sprite strokes: tiny-skia is replaced by a port of z2d 0.10's stroke
plotter (sprite/stroke.rs) plus z2d's arc segmentation and truncating
integer compositing, feeding the ported 4x4 multisample rasterizer.
All 36 reference sprite sheets now match Ghostty's byte for byte (test
tolerance 0), and `just visual-parity` with a production build shows
0 differing pixels (max delta 0) against the installed Ghostty 1.3.1
for the test page (block and bar cursor) and the tabs+splits scenario,
terminal area and chrome alike. tiny-skia dependency removed.
- zig_error maps errno values per target via libc (Linux, Darwin/BSD)
and Win32 codes the way Zig std does on Windows.
- theme=. / theme=.. report "it is a directory" via a port of
std.fs.path.basename, matching Ghostty.
Test Plan:
- cargo test --workspace --no-fail-fast (3498 passed, exit 0)
- cargo build --profile production && just visual-parity
- just check-macos (both), just check-windows, just check-wasm
Resolves the 9 gap groups in docs/rewrite/notes/review-rv7-codex.md and
audits every string-typed config field against its consumers
(field -> consumers -> decode status table in final-Z9.md):
- Windows EnvMap keys use a port of Zig's nls.zig uppercase table
(upcaseW); Windows locale init follows Zig's chain (setlocale +
_putenv_s); malformed WTF-8 now fails process launch conversions like
Zig instead of substituting U+FFFD; kitty file paths convert WTF-8.
- bash --rcfile/--init-file, configured TERM and inherited GTK LANG
keep their original bytes.
- C API clipboard completion and ghostty_surface_binding_action take
bytes; complete_clipboard_request is byte-typed through the core.
- text:/csi:/esc: bindings, enquiry-response, input = path:, embedded
initial_input, search needles, titles, link regexes, clipboard
codepoint map, command palette text and GTK font/namespace values
decode the escape encoding before use.
Remaining by design: D-Bus a{ss} values and +new-window arguments are
UTF-8 by D-Bus type. C API key/preedit text follows separately.
Test Plan:
- cargo test --workspace
- just check-macos (both), just check-windows, just check-wasm
Ports the macOS-specific Zig code behind cfg(target_os = "macos"):
- renderer: a GraphicsApi trait with generic::Renderer<G>; Metal backend
(all renderer/metal/* files, shaders.metal verbatim, runtime library
compile, IOSurface layer, CVDisplayLink), shadertoy -> MSL via naga;
OpenGL remains the backend elsewhere.
- font: CoreText face, shaper and discovery with build.rs backend
selection (coretext default; coretext-freetype / coretext-harfbuzz /
coretext-noshape features), no fontconfig/freetype/harfbuzz on Apple.
- input: KeymapDarwin via UCKeyTranslate, option-as-alt, mac keycodes.
- os: macos, mach, cf_release_thread, NSProcessInfo args and macOS
branches; config: macOS defaults, keybinds, Application Support paths.
- termio/core: login(1) wrapping, openpty/execvpe, Darwin child exit
handling, os_log logging.
Compile-checked for aarch64/x86_64-apple-darwin (clippy -D warnings
clean) using the cross setup in docs/rewrite/notes/macos-M1.md; cannot
run here. The embedded runtime/C API (embedded.zig) is the next step.
Also includes the cross-platform integration edits shared by the crash,
verification, Windows and macOS work (Cargo target-gating, thread
crash-context hooks, apprt-gtk surface/IME refactor, termio/os cfg
gates), a cfg fix so ghostty-config builds on wasm32, and an allow for
the intentional recursion in the crash overflow test.
Test Plan:
- cargo test --workspace (3224 passed)
- cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
- cargo check --target aarch64-apple-darwin -p ghostty-renderer (with
the documented cross env)
Ports main_wasm.zig as crates/ghostty-wasm (cdylib exporting the Zig
names: atlas_*, face_*, deferred_face_*, shaper_*, config_*), the
web_canvas font face and shaper (backend selected on wasm32), os/wasm
(logging, target, JS interop) and config/Wasm.zig.
C-library dependencies (freetype, harfbuzz, fontconfig, onig, gettext,
D-Bus, rustix) are target-gated. Like Zig's wasm build, link regex
search (StringMap::search_iterator) is unavailable without Oniguruma;
Collection/SharedGrid/harfbuzz are compiled out on wasm32. ghostty-os
switches from forbid to deny unsafe_code for the JS import blocks.
The JS import ABI is currently a documented handle-based interface with
a reference host (js/ghostty_host.js); aligning it with zig-js's exact
import names follows separately.
Test Plan:
- cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p ghostty-font \
-p ghostty-config -p ghostty-terminal -p ghostty-vt -p ghostty-wasm
- cargo test -p ghostty-wasm (node runs the module against a fake canvas)
Completes the font engine port:
- shaper/run.rs ports run.zig: the RunIterator over terminal rows that
splits text runs at style/face boundaries, selection and cursor,
handles graphemes and ligatures; Shaper::shape_run shapes a run.
- shared_grid_set.rs ports SharedGridSet.zig: grids keyed by a config
derived key, handed out as Arc<SharedGrid>.
- Font-related types now have one canonical definition in ghostty-config
(Variation, Descriptor, CodepointMap, metric modifiers, freetype load
flags, synthetic style, shaping break) which the font crate re-exports.
MetricModifier::apply_i32 now saturates to -i32::MAX like Zig.
- The 23 terminal-driven harfbuzz shaper tests are ported, printing via
Screen until Terminal lands.
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-font (157 passed, 3 ignored - also skipped in
Zig); Devanagari/Chakma/Bengali tests return early without system fonts
- cargo test -p ghostty-config (255 passed)
Ports the rest of ZIG/src/font for the freetype/fontconfig/harfbuzz
backend: face loading and rasterization (synthetic bold/italic, color
emoji bitmaps, glyph constraints for nerd font icons), fontconfig
discovery, DeferredFace, Collection, CodepointResolver, CodepointMap,
SharedGrid, opentype table parsers, the nerd font attribute table, and
the harfbuzz shaper with feature parsing and shaping cache.
Embedded fonts (JetBrains Mono 2.304 variable, Symbols Nerd Font 3.4.0,
Noto emoji) and the test fonts from Ghostty live in res/ with their OFL/
MIT licenses.
The crate opts into unsafe_code = "deny"; FFI is confined to ft.rs,
fontconfig.rs and hb.rs with SAFETY comments. Glyph resampling uses an
stb-style resampler that is not bit-identical to stb.
Deferred to the next font pass (needs ghostty-terminal/config):
shaper/run.zig, SharedGridSet.zig and the 23 terminal-driven shaper
tests. Config-facing types are mirrored locally in config_types.rs.
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-font (139 tests)
Ports ZIG/src/font/{Metrics,Atlas,Glyph}.zig and the whole sprite font
(font/sprite/**): box drawing, block elements, braille, branch/git
graph symbols, geometric shapes, powerline, and the symbols for legacy
computing (+ supplement, incl. the octants table).
Ghostty draws sprites with z2d; we use tiny-skia for path coverage,
composited onto an alpha8 canvas, while following the Zig geometry
(positions, thickness, rounding). Comptime discovery of draw functions
is replaced by explicit, overlap-checked codepoint range tables.
Upstream reference sheets are vendored in testdata/ and compared with a
tolerance: braille and U+1CD00 are pixel-identical; other sheets differ
only in antialiasing on thin diagonals/curves. Review renders are written
to target/sprite_sheets/.
The crate temporarily drops its config/unicode/terminal deps until the
rest of the font engine is ported (Phase 3).
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-font (49 tests incl. reference sheet comparison)
- inspect target/sprite_sheets/review-all-18x36.png
Start of the full Rust rewrite of Ghostty 1.3.1 (reference source in
../ghostty). Sets up a workspace whose crates mirror Ghostty's Zig modules
(vt, unicode, datastruct, os, input, config, terminal, font, renderer,
termio, core, apprt-gtk) so porting work can proceed in parallel per crate.
Also adds:
- docs/rewrite/{ARCHITECTURE,PLAN,STATUS,AGENT_GUIDE}.md: crate map, core
design decisions (safe Rust, slab-based PageList, logical capacity
accounting), phased plan, progress tracker, and porting rules.
- Workspace clippy config relaxing pedantic lints that are pure noise for
low-level terminal code (casts, long functions).
- Shared vt types needed by several work packages up front: kitty
keyboard flags (kitty/key.rs) and the CSI separator bitset (SepList).
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-vt (3 tests pass)
- cargo clippy -p ghostty-vt --all-targets -- -D warnings
ddidderr