SVN Branches

svn branch	purpose	scheduled versions	release date
trunk/extragear/sdk/	unstable development for KDE >= 4.3 entirely new code base, rewritten from scratch	KDevelop-4.0	( 31 March 2010 )
KDE/3.5	stable for KDE >= 3.4	KDevelop-3.5.0 has been released with KDE-3.5.8 KDevelop-3.5.x bugfix versions will be released together with KDE-3.5.x	KDE-3.5.8 release schedule ( 16 October 2007 )
KDE/3.5	stable for KDE >= 3.4	KDevelop-3.4.0 has been released with KDE-3.5.6 KDevelop-3.4.x bugfix versions will be released together with KDE-3.5.x	KDE-3.5.6 release schedule ( 25 January 2007 )
kdevelop/3.3	stable for KDE >= 3.2	KDevelop-3.3.0 has been released with KDE-3.5 KDevelop-3.3.x bugfix versions will be released together with KDE-3.5.x	KDE-3.5 release schedule ( 29 November 2005 )
KDE/3.4	stable for KDE >= 3.2	KDevelop-3.2.0 has been released with KDE-3.4 KDevelop-3.2.x bugfix versions will be released together with KDE-3.4.x	KDE-3.4 release schedule ( 16 March 2005 )
KDE/3.3	stable for KDE >= 3.2	KDevelop-3.1.0 has been released with KDE-3.3 KDevelop-3.1.x bugfix versions will be released together with KDE-3.3.x	KDE-3.3 release schedule ( 19 August 2004 )
KDE/3.2	stable for KDE >= 3.0 entirely new code base, rewritten from scratch	KDevelop-3.0.0 has been released with KDE-3.2 KDevelop-3.0.x bugfix versions will be released together with KDE-3.2.x	KDE-3.2 release schedule ( 03 February 2004 )
kdevelop/2	stable for KDE-2 and KDE-3.	Version 2.0.0 has been released with KDE-2.2.0 Development of 2.x versions has absolutely been stopped with 2.1.4, version 2.1.5 is just an adaptation to KDE-3.1.	released on 15/August/2001
kdevelop/1.4	stable for KDE-1 and KDE-2.	Development of 1.x versions has absolutely been stopped.	released on 6/December/1999

To get the latest source code from one of the branches:

Create a directory to put your sources

$ mkdir kdevelop

$ cd kdevelop

Checkout SVN module "kdevelop" at svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/

command line for HEAD branch:

$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdevelop/ kdevelop
command line for KDE/3.2 branch:

$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.2/kdevelop/ kdevelop

To get another branch, replace KDE/3.2 with the name of the branch you want.

Instructions for a self-compiled version of KDevelop 3.0.x

Get the sources for the KDE_3_2_BRANCH like is explained above.

Before continuing please check if your computer has the required software installed.

Initialize the build system:

       $ cd kdevelop
       $ make -f admin/Makefile.common cvs-clean
       $ make -f Makefile.cvs

In order to compile and install KDevelop on your system, type the commands (we assume you have bash shell) from below in the base directory.

       $ export KDEDIR=/where/your/kde3/is
       $ export QTDIR=/where/your/qt3/is
       $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
       $ export LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
       $ export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH

Note: For obvious reasons you should edit the first two lines to match your configuration! :)

The next step is to configure it, to find out more about all the available configure options invoke:

       $ ./configure --help

Here is an example of a debug-compiled version:

       $ ./configure --enable-debug=full --prefix=$KDEDIR --with-kdelibsdoxy-dir=$KDEDIR/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs-apidocs

Here is an example of a release-compiled version:

       $ ./configure --prefix=$KDEDIR --with-kdelibsdoxy-dir=$KDEDIR/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs-apidocs

You can avoid compiling some KDevelop components that you do not need, for example, I use the following configure command:

       $ ./configure --enable-debug=full --prefix=$KDEDIR --with-kdelibsdoxy-dir=$KDEDIR/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs-apidocs
          --disable-ada --disable-bash --disable-fortran --disable-haskell --disable-java --disable-pascal --disable-perl
          --disable-php --disable-python --disable-ruby --disable-sql --disable-antproject --disable-genericproject
          --disable-scriptproject --disable-trollproject --disable-clearcase --disable-perforce --disable-subversion

On KDE 3.0.x systems (only for KDE < 3.1) you should also give the following commands:

       $ ln -s $KDEDIR/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/dtd doc/kdevelop/dtd
       $ ln -s $KDEDIR/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/dtd doc/kde_app_devel/dtd
       $ ln -s $KDEDIR/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/dtd doc/kdearch/dtd

Finaly you can build it and install it:

       $ make
       $ make install (as root)

How to keep your version up to date

After you downloaded and successfully compiled one of the CVS branches above, you'll want to keep it up to date in order to get all the patches. To avoid typing in all the statements that set the necessary environment variables every time you update, you should set them in your .bashrc or .cshrc file.
If you use bash shell add the following lines:

export KDEDIR=/where/your/kde3/is
export QTDIR=/where/your/qt3/is
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH

If you use tcsh add the following lines:

setenv KDEDIR /where/your/kde3/is
setenv QTDIR /where/your/qt3/is
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
setenv LIBRARY_PATH $QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
setenv PATH $QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH

Note: For obvious reasons you should edit the first two lines to match your configuration! :)

Next go to the directory where you've put the kdevelop from CVS files and issue the update command:

 $ cd where_kde3src_is/kdevelop
 $ cvs update -dP

The next step depends on the output of the previous command:
If you got something like:
U /some_directory_path/Makefile.am
You should do:

 $ make -f Makefile.cvs

and then _ALL_ of the following steps.

If you got something like:
P /some_directory_path/Makefile.am
You should do:

 $ ./configure --enable-debug=full --prefix=$KDEDIR --with-kdelibsdoxy-dir=$KDEDIR/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs-apidocs

and then _ALL_ of the following steps.

  $ make
  $ make install (as root)

If for some reason the make command fails you can force it to ignore errors by adding the -k option. Depending on the error gravity you might end up with a working or non-working version of kdevelop. So do the "make -k install" at your own risk!!!. Any way these errors usually go away after a couple of hours so you might want to try an update again later before the dangerous :) make install command.

 $ make -k
 $ make -k install (as root)

That's it! You now have the most up to date version of KDevelop. To start it just do:

 $ kdevelop

All you have to do to keep it up to date is to repeat these steps whenever someone on the kdevelop-devel mailing list fixes a bug.
So you're strongly encouraged to join this mailing list.

You should report the bugs you find with the bug submition form. You should not report compilation errors to the bug database. For compilation errors use the mailing list instead.

You can take a look at the bugs in the bug database.

How to compile on FreeBSD

Follow the normal instructions, but use gmake instead of make and after

       $ gmake -f Makefile.cvs

do:

       $ export CXXFLAGS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib -I/usr/local/include/db41 -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -I/usr/X11R6/include"

Note that you need the berkeley db 4.1 installed, if you have another version, you need to adjust the path.
Change the line "ac_cv_bdb=no" to "ac_cv_bdb=yes" in the configure file because otherwise, configure can't find the db libraries.
To see which version you have installed:

       $ pkg_info | grep db41
       db41-4.1.25_1       The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.1

The FreeBSD guys renamed libdb.so to libdbxx.so. So replace "-ldb" by "-ldb41" in lib/catalog/Makefile.am
Then you can continue the normal process:

       $ ./configure --prefix=/blah --enable-debug=full

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