Installing Code::Blocks from source on RPM based distributions

Install Requirements

Install Developer Tools

This has to be installed before starting:

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

In Fedora/CentOS, this can be done with:

su -c 'yum groupinstall "Developer Tools"'

Install newer autotools versions

TODO

If you have CentOS 3 or RHEL 3, you will need to rebuild "automake17" instead of automake-1.6:

• ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS/automake17-1.7.9-5.src.rpm

Setup RPM environment

This has to be installed before starting:

• rpm-build

Non-root rpmbuild environment

cd
echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" >> .rpmmacros
mkdir rpm
cd rpm
mkdir SPECS SOURCES BUILD RPMS SRPMS

RPM_TOPDIR=`rpm --eval %{_topdir}`

Install wxWidgets 2.6.x

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 >= 2.6.0 and its devel package (see wxwidgets.org)
2. wxGTK-xrc and its devel package (in some distributions included in the packages of point 1)

Build the wxGTK RPM from source (if needed)

TODO

• wxGTK.spec
• http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxGTK-2.6.3.tar.gz
• ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/2.6.3/wxWidgets-2.6.3-Patch-2.tar.gz

Install Subversion client

This has to be installed before starting:

• subversion >= 1.4.0, (see subversion.tigris.org)

Build Subversion RPM from source (if needed)

TODO

• subversion.spec
• http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.0.tar.gz

Install Code::Blocks

Download the Source RPM

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

Prepare SRPM package from SVN (if needed)

1. You need to get the latest sources from SVN www.codeblocks.org/source_code.shtml

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 to the directory $RPM_TOPDIR/SOURCES

sudo mv codeblocks-trunk-r$REVISION.tar.gz $RPM_TOPDIR/SOURCES

5. build the source RPM

rpmbuild -bs codeblocks.spec

This will create a source package in the directory $RPM_TOPDIR/SRPMS/.

Build the RPM package

1. Build the binary package

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

This will create several packages in one of the architecture specific subdirectories (i386, x86_64, ppc, ...) of $RPM_TOPDIR/RPMS/.

These are:

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

Install the RPM package

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