KDevelop4/Manual/Appendix A: Building KDevelop from Sources
If you want to have the latest features and bugfixes, you can build KDevelop yourself from the sources.
Be aware that you could build an unstable version. To help the developers fix bugs, please keep the RelWithDebInfo and report bugs to http://bugs.kde.org, either per hand or using Dr. Konqi.
Requirements
- kdelibs-devel >= 4.3 – http://www.kde.org
- qt-devel >= 4.5.2 – http://qt.nokia.com
- boost-devel >= 1.35 – http://www.boost.org
- g++ >= 4.0 – http://gcc.gnu.org
- CMake >= 2.6.2 – http://www.cmake.org
- qjson-devel
Install for all users
mkdir kdevgit cd kdevgit git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdevplatform git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdevelop cd kdevplatform mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo .. make && sudo make install kbuildsycoca4 cd ../.. cd kdevelop mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo .. make && sudo make install kbuildsycoca4
Install for local user
mkdir kdevgit cd kdevgit git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdevplatform git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdevelop cd kdevplatform mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/kdevelop4 .. make && make install # the following line is needed so that kbuildsycoca4 finds all .desktop files export KDEDIRS=$HOME/kdevelop4:/usr kbuildsycoca4 cd ../.. cd kdevelop mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/kdevelop4 .. make && make install kbuildsycoca4
Please note: Whenever you do some package or distribution update that calls kbuildsycoca4, you need to execute the following lines after the update:
export KDEDIRS=$HOME/kdevelop4:/usr kbuildsycoca4