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://www.gcc.org
CMake >= 2.6.2 – http://www.cmake.org
qjson-devel

Install for all users

mkdir kdevgit
cd kdevgit
git clone git://git.kde.org/kdevplatform
git clone git://git.kde.org/kdevelop
cd kdevplatform
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..
make && sudo make install
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cd ../..
cd kdevelop
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..
make && sudo make install
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Install for local user

mkdir kdevgit
cd kdevgit
git clone git://git.kde.org/kdevplatform
git clone git://git.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
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cd ../..
cd kdevelop
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/kdevelop4 ..
make && make install
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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
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