KDevelop5/Manual/Appendix A: Building KDevelop from Sources
Building KDevelop from Sources
If you want to have the latest features and bugfixes, you can build KDevelop yourself from the sources.
There is a more detailed article here which uses the kdesrc-build system that builds up-to-date KDE dependencies and then KDevelop. The article also details a configuration change to prevent building all of the KDE dependencies when using kdesrc-build.
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 by hand or using Dr. Konqi.
If you are wanting to build KDevelop by just cloning the repository and compiling without kdesrc-build, then try this link. A link to a thorough Debian tutorial about building from source is also included.
Requirements
- kdelibs-devel >= 4.3 - http://www.kde.org
- qt-devel >= 4.5.2 - http://qt-project.org/
- 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