KDevelop 4/compiling
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The way to download, compile, install and run KDevelop depends on how you want to download it and where do you want to install it to. So follow the step by step instructions below.
[edit] 1. Get the requirements
- Make sure to install the required KDE development packages, see KDevelop 4/requirements for a list of requirements. In particular make sure to install KDE4 kdelibs development packages: kdelibs-devel, kdeworkspace-devel (or build from sources).
- WARNING: You have to remove all KDevelop/KDevplatform/Sublime packages provided by your distribution. If you don't do that, binary compatibility issues will eventually lead to crashes and undefined behavior. To make sure, you can search for KDevelop libraries with this command:
find /usr/ -type f -name "*kdev*.so*"
- If no results are returned, you should be on the safe side.
[edit] 2. Get the sources (assumes $HOME/src but you can replace it with something else)
- By downloading it to $HOME/src
- download kdevplatform.tar.bz2 and kdevelop.tar.bz2 from http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/
- unpack them:
cd $HOME/src
tar xvjf kdevplatform.tar.bz2
tar xvjf kdevelop.tar.bz2
- Or, by getting the latest sources directly out of the SVN server
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/sdk/kdevplatform $HOME/src/kdevplatform
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/sdk/kdevelop $HOME/src/kdevelop
[edit] 3. Configure and install KDevPlatform
- In both cases you need set the KDEDIRS environment variable to point to the installation directory of both KDE4 and KDevPlatform.
- This will tell KDE core components where to search for plugins and other data related to KDE apps and contains just a list of paths (aka prefixes) where KDE libraries and/or applications have been installed.
- Assuming that you have the KDE4 libraries installed in /usr (these are often from packages and installed in /usr or /opt/kde and is distro specific, if unsure ask your distro where it is), you'll have to append it to the KDEDIRS below.
- To be installed with the system libraries (you need root permissions to do this)
mkdir -p $HOME/src/kdevplatform/build
cd $HOME/src/kdevplatform/build
cmake ../
make
sudo make install
export KDEDIRS=/usr/local:/usr
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- Or, to be installed locally on $HOME/kdevelop4 but you can replace it with something else (you do not need root permissions to do this)
mkdir -p $HOME/src/kdevplatform/build
cd $HOME/src/kdevplatform/build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/kdevelop4 ../
make
make install
export KDEDIRS=$HOME/kdevelop4:/usr
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[edit] 4. Configure and install KDevelop
- To be installed with the system libraries (you need root permissions to do this)
mkdir -p $HOME/src/kdevelop/build
cd $HOME/src/kdevelop/build
cmake ../
make
sudo make install
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- Or, to be installed locally on $HOME/kdevelop4 but you can replace it with something else (you do not need root permissions to do this)
mkdir -p $HOME/src/kdevelop/build
cd $HOME/src/kdevelop/build
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$HOME/kdevelop4 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/kdevelop4 ../
make
make install
- In this case you need set the KDEDIRS environment variable to point to the installation directory of both KDE4, KDevPlatform and KDevelop.
- This will tell KDE core components where to search for plugins and other data related to KDE apps and contains just a list of paths (aka prefixes) where KDE libraries and/or applications have been installed.
- Assuming that you have the KDE4 libraries installed in /usr (these are often from packages and installed in /usr or /opt/kde and is distro specific, if unsure ask your distro where it is) and that you want to install KDevelop4 into $HOME/kdevelop4 then you need to:
export KDEDIRS=$HOME/kdevelop4:/usr
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[edit] 5. Get and install plugins (optional)
If you need extra functionality, you can get and install additional plugins for KDevelop4 at KDevelop 4/compiling/plugins.
[edit] 7. Run KDevelop
- If installed in the system
kdevelop
- Or, if installed in $HOME/kdevelop4 local directory
$HOME/kdevelop4/bin/kdevelop
This assumes you’re running KDevelop4 from a terminal and not via the run dialog or via a menu entry, if you want that to work you need to find out how to set environment for the whole X11 session – thats usually distro-specific.
[edit] 8. Contact the development team, or report bugs or wishes
- If you find any compile problems with KDevelop4 please don't report them on bugs.kde.org, please report them on our developer mailing-list instead.
- The bugzilla bug database is only for bugs, and not for compilation issues.
[edit] 9. Keeping it up-to-date with the latest fixes
- If you got the sources from SVN on step 2. then you can update by issuing the following commands:
- with root permissions do this
cd $HOME/src/kdevelop/build && sudo make uninstall
cd $HOME/src/kdevplatform/build && sudo make uninstall
svn up .. && make && sudo make install
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cd $HOME/src/kdevelop/build
svn up .. && make && sudo make install
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- Or if installed in local directory
cd $HOME/src/kdevelop/build && make uninstall
cd $HOME/src/kdevplatform/build && make uninstall
svn up .. && make && make install
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cd $HOME/src/kdevelop/build
svn up .. && make && make install
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You can also see the latest changes and bug fixes of KDevPlatform and the latest changes and fixes of KDevelop on-line, updated every hour.