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This page gives links to the available binary packages for CodeLite 8.0, and to the free version of its RAD plugin wxCrafter.

Note that (apart from fedora 22) the CodeLite packages now incorporate the wx3.0.2 libraries that CodeLite requires, so there should no longer be any need to install wx3.0 separately. Of course you can if you wish, and you'll need to do so to build apps against wx3. For fedora 22 I've built using the official wxGTK3-devel package. I've therefore not included the wx libs. The fc22 CodeLite depends on the wxGTK3 runtime libs.

CodeLite apt repositories

To download CodeLite for Debian based systems (Debian / Mint / Ubuntu etc):

• Add CodeLite public key to avoid warnings from apt/aptitude

sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys http://repos.codelite.org/CodeLite.asc

• Now let apt know that the repositories exist by adding the proper line from Table 1:
  • If you use an apt front-end e.g. synaptic, tell it to Add a repository, using as data the appropriate entry from the Table 1 below
  • If you do things by hand, add the appropriate URLs from Table 1 to /etc/apt/sources.list (you need to become superuser) :

 sudo apt-add-repository 'deb http://repos.codelite.org/ubuntu/ vivid universe'

Table 1: CodeLite repositories

• You then need update your repositories. In synaptic, click the Reload button. If you're doing things by hand, do:

 sudo apt-get update

• You should now be able to install CodeLite in the normal way through synaptic, or by doing:

 sudo apt-get install codelite wxcrafter

CodeLite RPMs

There are rpms available for fedora 21 and 22, and openSUSE 13.2:

First tell rpm about the CodeLite public key. As superuser do:

 rpm --import http://repos.codelite.org/CodeLite.asc

Then either download the required rpm and install it as usual, or download and install in one step; e.g.

rpm -Uvh http://repos.codelite.org/rpms-8.0/fedora/codelite-8.0-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm

There are also source rpms for fedora and openSUSE. Note that these do not contain wxCrafter. To build binary rpms containing wxCrafter, you'll need to download the appropriate wxCrafter.so, plus the file wxgui.zip that contains its bitmaps, and put both in the rpmbuild/SOURCES dir before you build.

ArchLinux

CodeLite is available on ArchLinux via their AUR repository

To install codelite:

yaourt -S codelite

Previous CodeLite releases

See this page for links to packages from previous CodeLite and wxCrafter releases.

wxCrafter binary packages

The above packages supply the CodeLite IDE. Also available is the free version of wxCrafter, its gui-designer plugin. There are five types of 32 and 64 bit packages here: for debian jessie and ubuntu vivid; for debian wheezy and ubuntu versions 14.04 (trusty) and 14.10 (utopic); for fedora 21; for fedora 22; and for openSUSE 13.2. It's possible that some of these will work on earlier distro versions too, but only if you build CodeLite yourself against wxWidgets-3.0.1 or 3.0.2 (even then that's untested, but the wheezy ones are likeliest to work). Instead you can find older wxCrafter packages via the previous-releases pages.

Note that the fedora 21 binaries don't use the new fedora wxGTK3 packages as wxGTK3-devel doesn't provide a useful wx-config symlink (so the normal CodeLite/wxCrafter build process won't work). However for fedora 22 I've worked-around this, and the wxGTK3 package is used. The openSUSE 13.2 ones are built against the official wx3.0.1 packages (as are the corresponding CodeLite packages). The jessie packages are also built against the jessie wx3.0.2 packages; note however that they will only work with CodeLite 8.0 and possibly 7.0, not with the CodeLite 6.1 packages in the official jessie repo.

In the following table I've provided direct links to the debian/ubuntu packages, but these are more easily installed from the CodeLite repos in the usual way.

Download and install them with alongside CodeLite (it will do no harm to install wxCrafter without CodeLite, but it won't run!). The debs are also available from the CodeLite repo (see above); the setup and public key are the same, but the packages are called 'wxcrafter'.

wxCrafter libs

What if you don't want to use a package, or there isn't one that your distro supports? If you want to build your own CodeLite, here are the wxCrafter libs that the packages contain. Choose the nearest match, but there's no guarantee they will work on distant versions or different distros.

You will also need the file wxgui.zip that contains some of wxCrafter's bitmaps. This needs to end up inside the CodeLite 'share' installation (e.g. in /usr/share/codelite/). The wxCrafter.so itself needs to go in CodeLite's 'plugins' dir, which by default is probably /usr/lib/codelite/. How to do this? Well, you could just add them by hand as superuser. However there are other alternatives:

• If you are building from a tarball, 'configure' and 'make' as usual. Then before 'make install' add wxCrafter.so to Runtime/plugins/; it'll then be installed with the other plugin libs. There is no similar solution for wxgui.zip at present, but this might be fixed sometime...
• If you are building a CodeLite .deb package using the debian/rules from the repo, just add both wxCrafter.so and wxgui.zip to the same dir as the source tarball. 'rules' knows to look for them there.
• If you are using the fedora or openSUSE spec files to build an rpm, just add both wxCrafter.so and wxgui.zip to rpmbuild/SOURCES/. You can copy the .spec hack if you create a .spec for other distros.