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Dexed is mostly programmed in Object Pascal, using the the Lazarus development platform.

Pre-requisites

  • Git
  • Download and setup the latest Lazarus version (>= 2.2.0) and FPC + FPC sources (= 3.2.2) for your platform.
    • Windows: the three packages are bundled in an installer.
    • 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.
  • Download and setup LDC2 (>= v1.31.0), the LLVM-based D compiler. It is used to compile the part of the IDE that's written in D, a library called libdexed-d. LDC2 binaries must be visible in the system PATH variable. Note that building libdexed-d is automatic.

Build

  • $ cd <user dir where to clone>
  • $ git clone https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed.git
  • $ git submodule update --init, to clone the dependencies used by libdexed-d.

You're now ready to build Dexed. This can be done in the Lazarus IDE or using the lazbuild utility.

  • If you don't plan to develop the project, use lazbuild, note that its path may have to be specified:

    • open a console.
    • cd to the repository location, sub folder lazproj.
    • $ lazbuild -B dexeddesigncontrols.lpk.
    • $ lazbuild -B dexed.lpi.

  • If you plan to help developing you'd better get started with Lazarus, although building is less conveniant:

    • start Lazarus.
    • setup lazproj/cedsgncontrols.lpk with Lazarus package manager (requires to rebuild Lazarus).
    • in the project menu, click open... and select the file dexed.lpi, which is located in the sub-folder lazproj.
    • in the menu Execute click Create.

After what Dexed and libdexed-d should be build, in the bin folder. To use dexed, The library might have to be copied to a specific path, e.g /lib64/ under linux.

Third party tools

Additionally you'll have to build

See the products documentation for more information.