Compiling Bluefish from source

Compiling bluefish 2.0 from source

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)
* pcre + development files (sometimes called libpcre3-dev or pcre-devel)

Optional libraries / header files:

* libenchant + development files (for spell checking)
* libgucharmap + development files (for the character map side pane plugin)

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
* run ./configure
* run make
* switch to root and run make install

Compiling bluefish 1.0 from source

TODO