Makepad Commands Quick Reference

Edward Tan published on November 09, 2023

2 min

Yesterday I wrote a post detailing specific instructions on how to build and run Makepad apps on IOS and Android devices. This post is a quick reference that lists most the commands, including sample commands for specific apps in the Project Robius repo.

For more detailed descriptions, please see: Makepad Build Commands

Cargo Tools Installations

These are commands that need to be run at least once initially to setup Makepad development environments. They should also be run once in a while or when there are updates to the cargo_makepad script. I personally run them about once a week.

rustup update
rustup install nightly
rustup toolchain install nightly

cd ~/projects/makepad
cargo install --path ./tools/cargo_makepad
cargo makepad android toolchain-install
cargo makepad apple ios toolchain-install

Android

The following should be run inside each of the sample app directories.

Command for installing the app onto an IOS Simulator.

cargo makepad android run -p makepad_wechat --release

cargo makepad android run -p makepad_taobao --release

cargo makepad android run -p makepad_widgets_sample --release

cargo makepad android run -p todo_makepad --release

IOS Simulator

The following should be run inside each of the sample app directories.

Command for installing the app onto an IOS Simulator.

cargo makepad apple ios --org=rs.robius --app=taobao run-sim -p makepad_taobao --release

cargo makepad apple ios --org=rs.robius --app=wechat run-sim -p makepad_wechat --release

cargo makepad apple ios --org=rs.robius --app=WidgetsSample run-sim -p makepad_widgets_sample --release

cargo makepad apple ios --org=rs.robius --app=todo run-sim -p todo_makepad --release

IOS Device

The following should be run inside each of the sample app directories.

Command for installing the app onto a physical IOS device:

cargo makepad apple ios --org-id=ORGIDVALUE --org=rs.robius --app=wechat run-device -p makepad_wechat --release

cargo makepad apple ios --org-id=ORGIDVALUE --org=rs.robius --app=taobao run-device -p makepad_taobao --release

cargo makepad apple ios --org-id=ORGIDVALUE --org=rs.robius --app=WidgetsSample run-device -p makepad_widgets_sample --release

cargo makepad apple ios --org-id=ORGIDVALUE --org=rs.robius --app=todo run-device -p todo_makepad --release

Cargo Check Builds

Command to check that the compilation passes for all Makepad supported platforms: (Will use 100% CPU and cause hang machine, only try on high-end systems)

cargo makepad check install-toolchain
cargo makepad check all