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README for building of Scintilla, Lexilla, and SciTE



Scintilla and Lexilla can be built by themselves.

To build SciTE, Scintilla and Lexilla should first be built.



See lexilla/README for information on building Lexilla.



*** GTK+/Linux version ***



You must first have GTK+ 2.24 or later and GCC (7.1 or better) installed.

Clang may be used by adding CLANG=1 to the make command line.

Other C++ compilers may work but may require tweaking the make file.

Either GTK+ 2.x or 3.x may be used with 2.x the default and 3.x

chosen with the make argument GTK3=1.



To build Scintilla, use the makefile located in the scintilla/gtk directory

	cd scintilla/gtk

	make

	cd ../..



To build and install SciTE, use the makefile located in the scite/gtk directory

	cd scite/gtk

	make

	sudo make install



This installs SciTE into $prefix/bin. The value of $prefix is determined from

the location of Gnome if it is installed. This is usually /usr if installed

with Linux or /usr/local if built from source. If Gnome is not installed

/usr/bin is used as the prefix. The prefix can be overridden on the command

line like "make prefix=/opt" but the same value should be used for both make

and make install as this location is compiled into the executable. The global

properties file is installed at $prefix/share/scite/SciTEGlobal.properties.

The language specific properties files are also installed into this directory.



To remove SciTE

	sudo make uninstall



To clean the object files which may be needed to change $prefix

	make clean



The current make file supports static and dynamic linking between SciTE, Scintilla, and Lexilla.





*** Windows version ***



A C++ 17 compiler is required.

Visual Studio 2019 is the development system used for most development

although Mingw-w64 9.2 is also supported.



To build Scintilla, make in the scintilla/win32 directory

		cd scintilla\win32

GCC:		mingw32-make

Visual C++:	nmake -f scintilla.mak

		cd ..\..



To build SciTE, use the makefiles located in the scite/win32 directory

		cd scite\win32

GCC:		mingw32-make

Visual C++: 	nmake -f scite.mak



An executable SciTE will now be in scite/bin.



*** GTK+/Windows version ***



Mingw-w64 is known to work. Other compilers will probably not work.



Only Scintilla will build with GTK+ on Windows. SciTE will not work.



Make builds both a static library version of Scintilla with lexers (scintilla.a) and

a shared library without lexers (libscintilla.so or or libscintilla.dll).



To build Scintilla, make in the scintilla/gtk directory

	cd scintilla\gtk

	mingw32-make



*** macOS Cocoa version ***



Xcode 9.2 or later may be used to build Scintilla on macOS.



There is no open source version of SciTE for macOS but there is a commercial

version available through the App Store.



To build Scintilla, run xcodebuild in the scintilla/cocoa/ScintillaFramework or 

scintilla/cocoa/Scintilla directory



        cd cocoa/Scintilla



	xcodebuild



*** Qt version ***



See the qt/README file to build Scintilla with Qt.