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Build Dexed <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/anchor-js/4.2.2/anchor.min.js"></script>

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

  • Download and setup the latest Lazarus version (2.0.5) and FPC + FPC sources (3.0.4) 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, the LLVM-based D compiler. It is used to compile the part of IDE written in D, a library called libdexed-d. the binaries must be visible in the system PATH variable. Note that building libdexed-d is automatic.
  • 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.

The Lazarus LCL and the FreePascal FCL may require patches that fix bugs or regressions present in the latest Lazarus release and for which Dexed cannot include workarounds. Any .patch file located in the patches/ folder should be applied. On linux you'll have to set the write permissions to /usr/lib64/fpc and /usr/lib64/lazarus.

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

  • If you don't plan to develop the project, use lazbuild:

    • open a console.
    • cd to the repository location, sub folder lazproj.
    • type lazbuild -B dexeddesigncontrols.lpk and ENTER. Note that the path to lazbuild may have to be specified.
    • type lazbuild -B dexed.lpi and ENTER. Note that the path to lazbuild may have to be specified.

  • If you plan to help developing you'd better get started with Lazarus, which 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 should be build. The executable and the library are output to the bin folder. 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 the completion daemon DCD and the D linter Dscanner. See the products documentation for more information.