---
title: 'Getting started'
weight: 2
---

{{< cards cols="1" >}}
  {{< card
    title="🪟 Windows"
    subtitle="Instructions to install BlocksDS natively in Windows."
    link="windows"
  >}}
  {{< card
    title="🐧 Linux"
    subtitle="For Linux, WSL, MinGW, or any similar environment."
    link="linux"
  >}}
  {{< card
    title="🐳 Docker"
    subtitle="Docker images that can be used in any OS (including macOS) or in automated pipelines."
    link="docker"
  >}}
  {{< card
    title="🛠️ Build from source"
    subtitle="Build BlocksDS from source to use the bleeding-edge code or to help develop BlocksDS."
    link="from_source"
  >}}
{{< /card >}}

{{< callout type="info" >}}
**macOS** isn't supported natively, you need to use Docker instead. We're
[looking for help](https://codeberg.org/blocksds/sdk/issues/205) with it.
{{< /callout >}}
