Compiling Bluefish from source

Compiling bluefish 2.2.1 from source tarballs

installing the requirements

Build requirements:

• a C compiler (for example gcc or clang-gcc)
• gnu make

Library / header file requirements:

• gtk2 + development files (sometimes called libgtk2.0-dev or libgtk2-devel)
• libxml2 development files (sometimes called libxml2-dev or libxml2-devel)

Optional libraries / header files:

• libenchant + development files (for spell checking, Ubuntu/Debian package libenchant-dev)
• libgucharmap + development files (for the character map side pane plugin, Ubuntu/Debian package libgucharmap-dev)
• python + development files (for Zencoding support, Ubuntu/Debian package python-dev)

Debian and Ubuntu packages required

• make
• gcc
• libgtk2.0-dev
• libxml2-dev

and optional

• libenchant-dev
• libgucharmap2-dev
• python-dev

Getting and compiling

• get the latest source from http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/source/
• unpack
  • for a gzipped file tar -xzf bluefish-2.0.xxxx.tar.gz
  • for a bzipped file tar -xjf bluefish-2.0.xxxx.tar.bz2
• cd bluefish-2.0.xxxx
• run ./configure
• run make
• switch to root and run make install

Compiling bluefish straight from subversion

Building (assumes required packages have been installed)

svn co https://bluefish.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bluefish/trunk/bluefish
cd bluefish
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Debian and Ubuntu packages required to build from subversion

• libtool
• intltool
• automake
• autoconf
• make
• libgtk2.0-dev or libgtk-3-dev
• libenchant-dev
• libgucharmap2-dev or libgucharmap-2-90-dev
• libxml2-dev
• subversion
• python-dev