Installing Code::Blocks from source on RPM based distributions
TODO: the builds should not be done as root
Compiling the SVN version
This has to be installed before starting:
- wxGTK >= 2.6.0 and its devel package,
- zip,
- subversion,
- update-desktop-files,
- make,
- gettext,
- autoconf >= 2.5,
- automake >= 1.7,
- libtool >= 1.4,
- m4,
- intltool,
- gcc-c++ and
- libstdc++-devel
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:
- wxGTK and its devel package
- 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
