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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 \ mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-libmariadbclient \ mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-postgresql \ 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 \ libssh-dev libsqlite3-dev \ libmariadb-dev \ libpq-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 \ mariadb \ postgresql \ gettext

Usually, brew will install everything under /opt/homebrew, so run this from the terminal:

echo 'export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH' >> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>H</mi><mi>O</mi><mi>M</mi><mi>E</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">/</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">.</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">HOME/.</annotation></semantics></math>HOME/.(basename $SHELL)rc source <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>H</mi><mi>O</mi><mi>M</mi><mi>E</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">/</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">.</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">HOME/.</annotation></semantics></math>HOME/.(basename $SHELL)rc

Next step is to Build wxWidgets from sources
Finally, Build CodeLite:

mkdir -p $HOME/devl cd $_ git clone https://github.com/eranif/codelite.git cd codelite git submodule update --init --recursive mkdir build-release cd $_ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DWITH_MYSQL=1 -DWITH_POSTGRES=1 make -j$(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