Installing Code::Blocks from source on RPM based distributions

TODO: the builds should not be done as root

Install Requirements

Install Developer Tools

This has to be installed before starting:

• zip,
• subversion, (see subversion.tigris.org)
• update-desktop-files, (only on SUSE)
• make,
• gettext,
• autoconf >= 2.5,
• automake >= 1.7,
• libtool >= 1.4,
• m4,
• intltool,
• gcc-c++ and
• libstdc++-devel

Setup RPM environment

This has to be installed before starting:

• rpm-build

Install wxWidgets 2.6.x

This has to be installed before starting:

• wxGTK >= 2.6.0 and its devel package,

Install Subversion client

This has to be installed before starting:

• subversion, (see subversion.tigris.org)

Compiling Code::Blocks

Compiling the SVN version

1. You need to get the latest sources from SVN (described here Compiling_Code::Blocks_in_Linux_(applies_to_all_distros)#Getting_the_latest_sources_from_SVN)

2. go into trunk, if you haven't already done it.

3. run these three commands in this order

./bootstrap
./configure --enable-contrib
make dist

the last one will create a .tar.gz archive that contains the sources.

4. copy the archive as root to the directory /usr/src/packages/SOURCES

sudo mv codeblocks-trunk-r$REVISION.tar.gz /usr/src/packages/SOURCES

5. build the binary packages as root with

sudo rpmbuild -bb codeblocks.spec

This will create several packages in one of the architecture specific subdirectories (i586, x86_64, ...) of /usr/src/packages/RPMS/. These are:

• codeblocks: main package
• codeblocks-contrib: contrib plugins
• codeblocks-devel: SDK headers
• codeblocks-debuginfo: stripped debug information

6. Install the packages you want (usually codeblocks and codeblocks-contrib) and enjoy Code::Blocks!

Compiling the Release Candidate 2

The build requirements in the source RPM are set to a minimum. So it isn't checked whether wxGTK is installed or not. So you have to take a look at it yourself.

This has to be installed:

1. wxGTK and its devel package
2. wxGTK-xrc and its devel package (in some distributions included in the packages of point 1)

1. Download the source RPM from www.codeblocks.org/downloads.shtml

2. Build the binary package as root

rpmbuild --rebuild codeblocks-1.0-rc2.src.rpm

3. The binary RPM should be in one of the subdirectories of /usr/src/packages/RPMS