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Building CodeLite from sources

Windows

Important

We only support MSYS2 terminal

pacman -S mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-zlib     \
          mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-libssh   \
          mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-hunspell \
          mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-openssl  \
          mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-sqlite3  \
          flex bison
  • Download and build wx-config.exe from sources:
git clone https://github.com/eranif/wx-config-msys2.git
cd wx-config-msys2
mkdir build-release
cd $_
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G"MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/root"
mingw32-make -j$(nproc) install
  • Add $HOME/root/bin to your path and make sure that which wx-config points to the newly installed wx-config
  • Build CodeLite (in Release mode):
  • Set the environment variable MSYS2_BASE to point to MSYS2 root installation folder (e.g. C:/msys64)
git clone https://github.com/eranif/codelite.git
cd codelite
git submodule update --init --recursive
mkdir build-release
cd $_
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G"MinGW Makefiles" -DWXWIN="$HOME/root" -Wno-dev
mingw32-make -j$(nproc) install

Note

To build CodeLite in debug mode, replace CMake argument from: -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release into -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

  • To run the new CodeLite:
cd build-release/install
./codelite

Linux

  • To build CodeLite on your computer you will first need to install wXWidget 3.1+ (sudo apt install libwxgtk3.2-dev libgtk-3-dev) or Build wxWidgets from sources
  • Install libssh-dev and libsqlite3-dev packages (or similar, depending on your distro). On Ubuntu / Debian, you can use this command:
    sudo apt install build-essential            \
                     git cmake flex             \
                     libssh-dev libsqlite3-dev  \
                     libpcre2-dev bison flex
  • Git clone the sources:
    git clone https://github.com/eranif/codelite.git
    cd codelite
    git submodule update --init --recursive
  • Build CodeLite:
 cd codelite
 mkdir build-release
 cd build-release
 cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. -DCOPY_WX_LIBS=1
 make -j$(nproc)
 sudo make install
  • To uninstall CodeLite:
cd build-release # cd to the build directory
sudo xargs rm -vf < install_manifest.txt

macOS

Prerequisites:

  • wxWidgets 3.1 or later
  • CMake
  • Git
  • Xcode
  • Xcode command-line tools
  • Homebrew
  • Flex
  • autoconf

Preparation:

  • (Optional) Make a separate folder for building if you want to get rid of all except the .app file after building
  • Install Xcode from Mac App Store
  • Install Xcode command-line tools: xcode-select --install (or you can type clang from the command line and if it is missing you will be prompted to install it)
  • Install Homebrew:
 ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  • Install the required libraries:
brew update
brew install git        \
             cmake      \
             flex       \
             autoconf   \
             automake   \
             libtool    \
             gettext
  • Usually, brew will install everything under /opt/homebrew, so run this from the terminal:
echo 'export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH' >> $HOME/.$(basename $SHELL)rc
source $HOME/.$(basename $SHELL)rc

    mkdir -p $HOME/devl
    cd $_
    git clone https://github.com/eranif/codelite.git
    cd codelite
    git submodule update --init --recursive
    mkdir build-release
    cd $_
    cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
    make -j$(sysctl -n hw.physicalcpu) install

You should now have an app bundle $HOME/devl/codelite/build-release/codelite.app

To launch CodeLite:

  • open $HOME/devl/codelite/build-release/codelite.app
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