Compiling Wave Terminal for Windows ARM

If you’re running Windows on ARM and noticed that Wave Terminal doesn’t provide a native binary, it’s a fairly straightforward compilation process if you want to build it yourself.

1. Install Visual Studio Community Edition via winget install XPDCFJDKLZJLP8 and select ‘Desktop Development with C++’.
2. Install the required build dependencies if you don’t have them already.
   • winget install task.task - winget detects and installs the ARM version of task; Scoop does not as of 2026-03-23.
   • scoop install go - scoop remains my prefered method of installing software on Windows
   • scoop install zig
3. Add an overrides entry to package.json to force node-gyp@^12.2.0 (otherwise you get an error due to node-gyp@11.5.0 only recognizing Visual Studio 2022 and prior).

"overrides": {
    "node-gyp": "^12.2.0"
}

At this point, the ‘BUILD.md’ instructions from the repository should complete successfully - so, following those, you just need to run task init and task package.