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title: Build Coedit
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### Build

#### Coedit

Coedit is mostly programmed in Object Pascal, using the the [Lazarus development platform](http://www.lazarus-ide.org/).

* [Download](http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?page=downloads) and setup the latest Lazarus version (>= 1.6.4) and  FPC + FPC sources (>= 3.0.2) for your platform.
    * Windows: the three packages are bundled in an installer. Even on Windows 64 bit, the 32 version must be setup.
    * Linux: the three packages must be downloaded and setup individually. It's recommended to download the packages from _SourceForge_ and not from the official repository of the distribution because they don't always propose the latest version.
* `cd <user dir where to clone>`
* `git clone https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit.git`
* `git submodule update --init --recursive`, to clone the dependencies used by the background tool.

You're now ready to build Coedit. This can be done in the IDE or using the _lazbuild_ utility.

* With _Lazarus_: 
    * start Lazarus,
    * in the **project** menu, click *open...* and select the file **Coedit.lpi**, which is located in the sub-folder **lazproj**.
    * in the menu **Execute** click **Create**.

* With _lazbuild_: 
    * open a console.
    * `cd` to the repository location, sub folder **lazproj**.
    * type `lazbuild -B coedit.lpi` and <kbd>ENTER</kbd>. note that the path to _lazbuild_ may have to be specified.

After what Coedit should be build. The executable is output to the _bin_ folder.

#### Dastworx

The background tool used by the IDE is a D program.

* [Download](https://dlang.org/download.html#dmd) and setup latest DMD version.
* In the repository, browse to the `dastworx` folder.
    * Windows: double click `build.bat`
    * Linux: `sh ./build.sh`

You can also build it in CE using the project file _dastworx.ce_.

#### Third party tools:

Additionally you'll have to build [the completion daemon **DCD**](https://github.com/BBasile/DCD#setup) and the [D linter **Dscanner**](https://github.com/Hackerpilot/Dscanner#building-and-installing).
See the products documentation for more information.