Ghostty/Q/Does Ghostty work on Windows?
Does Ghostty work on Windows?
- Short answer: No official native Windows build as of mid-2026 — Ghostty officially targets macOS and Linux only — but community ports exist and official groundwork is underway.
- Official status: The core
libghostty library already supports Windows as a build target, and that work is what the small Ghostty team is currently building toward, but there is no official native Windows application release yet. - Community alternatives (unofficial, third-party):
- Winghostty — native Windows terminal built on Ghostty's terminal core, with tabs, splits, session restoration, and signed x64/ARM64 releases
- ghostty-windows — community port using Win32 API, OpenGL rendering, and ConPTY, with no WSL required
- Sources: Windows support q&a (Discussion #12290); Windows Support (Discussion #2563)