1 README for building of Scintilla, Lexilla, and SciTE
3 Scintilla and Lexilla can be built by themselves.
4 To build SciTE, Scintilla and Lexilla should first be built.
6 See lexilla/README for information on building Lexilla.
8 *** GTK+/Linux version ***
10 You must first have GTK+ 2.24 or later and GCC (7.1 or better) installed.
11 Clang may be used by adding CLANG=1 to the make command line.
12 Other C++ compilers may work but may require tweaking the make file.
13 Either GTK+ 2.x or 3.x may be used with 2.x the default and 3.x
14 chosen with the make argument GTK3=1.
16 To build Scintilla, use the makefile located in the scintilla/gtk directory
21 To build and install SciTE, use the makefile located in the scite/gtk directory
26 This installs SciTE into $prefix/bin. The value of $prefix is determined from
27 the location of Gnome if it is installed. This is usually /usr if installed
28 with Linux or /usr/local if built from source. If Gnome is not installed
29 /usr/bin is used as the prefix. The prefix can be overridden on the command
30 line like "make prefix=/opt" but the same value should be used for both make
31 and make install as this location is compiled into the executable. The global
32 properties file is installed at $prefix/share/scite/SciTEGlobal.properties.
33 The language specific properties files are also installed into this directory.
38 To clean the object files which may be needed to change $prefix
41 The current make file supports static and dynamic linking between SciTE, Scintilla, and Lexilla.
44 *** Windows version ***
46 A C++ 17 compiler is required.
47 Visual Studio 2019 is the development system used for most development
48 although Mingw-w64 9.2 is also supported.
50 To build Scintilla, make in the scintilla/win32 directory
53 Visual C++: nmake -f scintilla.mak
56 To build SciTE, use the makefiles located in the scite/win32 directory
59 Visual C++: nmake -f scite.mak
61 An executable SciTE will now be in scite/bin.
63 *** GTK+/Windows version ***
65 Mingw-w64 is known to work. Other compilers will probably not work.
67 Only Scintilla will build with GTK+ on Windows. SciTE will not work.
69 Make builds both a static library version of Scintilla with lexers (scintilla.a) and
70 a shared library without lexers (libscintilla.so or or libscintilla.dll).
72 To build Scintilla, make in the scintilla/gtk directory
76 *** macOS Cocoa version ***
78 Xcode 9.2 or later may be used to build Scintilla on macOS.
80 There is no open source version of SciTE for macOS but there is a commercial
81 version available through the App Store.
83 To build Scintilla, run xcodebuild in the scintilla/cocoa/ScintillaFramework or
84 scintilla/cocoa/Scintilla directory
92 See the qt/README file to build Scintilla with Qt.