Compiling Bluefish from source
Compiling bluefish from source tarballs
installing the requirements
Build requirements:
- a C compiler (for example gcc or clang-gcc)
- gnu make
Library / header file requirements:
- gtk+ 2 or 3 development files (sometimes called libgtk2.0-dev or libgtk2-devel, or libgtk-3-dev)
- libxml2 development files (sometimes called libxml2-dev or libxml2-devel)
Optional libraries / header files:
- libenchant + development files (for spell checking, libenchant-dev)
- libgucharmap + development files (for the character map side pane plugin, libgucharmap-dev)
- python development files (python-dev or python-devel)
Debian and Ubuntu packages required
- automake
- autoconf
- make
- libtool
- intltool
- libgtk-3-dev
- libxml2-dev
and optional
- libenchant-dev
- libgucharmap-2-90-dev
- python-dev
for the upcoming 2.2.14 release the following packages are required
apt install automake autoconf make libtool autopoint libgtk-3-dev libxml2-dev libenchant-2-dev libgucharmap-2-90-dev python3-dev
Getting and compiling
- get the latest source from http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/source/
- unpack
- for a gzipped file tar -xzf bluefish-2.2.xxxx.tar.gz
- for a bzipped file tar -xjf bluefish-2.2.xxxx.tar.bz2
- cd bluefish-2.2.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 checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/bluefish/code/trunk bluefish-code cd bluefish-code/bluefish ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install
Debian and Ubuntu packages required to build from subversion
- libtool
- intltool
- automake
- autoconf
- make
- libgtk-3-dev
- libenchant-dev
- libgucharmap-2-90-dev
- libxml2-dev
- subversion
- python-dev