UPDATE - 19/06/2025: The build system for the Tracy server was changed from Makefiles to CMake starting from Tracy Profiler 0.11. This allows for the dependencies to be downloaded directly from their respective repositories by CMake, so the instructions in this blog post are no longer valid. Follow the section "Building the server" on Tracy's documentation and things should work without any issues.

Building Tracy

Clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy.git
cd tracy

Switch to the commit tagged with the latest released version (in my case v0.10):

git checkout v0.10

If you don’t alreay have make installed, you should install it by running:

sudo apt install build-essential

Then install the required dependencies:

sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev libfreetype-dev libtbb-dev

For Wayland

sudo apt install libxkbcommon-dev libwayland-dev libglvnd-dev

For X11

Afterwards always run make LEGACY=1 instead of just make

sudo apt install libglfw3-dev

Building capstone from source

Building and installing capstone (a required dependency of Tracy):

git clone https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone.git

Switch to the latest tagged release, in my case 5.0.1:

git checkout 5.0.1

To build:

./make.sh

And then install:

sudo ./make.sh install

Then, add the directory where you downloaded capstone to the $PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/home/path/to/capstone"

In the same terminal, go to the directory profiler/build/unix, inside the tracy repository, and run:

make

If you are building with wayland support, or:

make LEGACY=1

If you are building with X11 support.

If everything goes well, there sould be an executable called Tracy-release inside the same directory where make got ran.