Building

🕒 Created: 2025-03-28 | Updated: 2026-02-01

Build

Compiles, generates executable.
```
odin build .
```

Run

Compile, generate executable, run executable.
```
odin run .
```
. refers to the directory.
Odin thinks in terms of directory-based packages. The odin build <dir> command takes all the files in the directory <dir> , compiles them into a package and then turns that into an executable. You can also tell it to treat a single file as a complete package by adding -file , like so:
```
odin run hellope.odin -file
```

Help

odin build -help
Output path:
- odin build . -out:foo.exe
- odin build . -out:out/odin-engine.exe
  - The directory is not created by default, so if the out dir doesn't exist it will give an error in the build; use mkdir beforehand.

Subsystems

Remove terminal from executable

For Windows:
- -subsystem:windows .