Linux Progress

April 15th, 2009

e on Linux

Since the source was released, there has been quite a bit of progress with lots of outside contributions. Adam Vandenberg has been putting in a lot of work on the build environment on the windows side, and Andrey Turkin and Roman Lisagor have been hard at work on getting the Linux version up and running.

As you can see on the screenshot, it now builds and renders on Linux. Getting the build up and running still takes quite a bit of hand holding, and lots of minor issues will have to be corrected before it is usable for daily work, but if you are familiar with Linux, get the latest source and join in and we will soon have a working release.

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9 Responses to “Linux Progress”

  1. Manuel Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 3:57 am

    This is definitely awesome, thank you for releasing the source and for all the hard work involved with the Linux version!

  2. Nicolas Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 4:35 am

    Wow,

    I must admit that I’m a Gedit lover, but I definitively want to give a try at E.

    Any tutorial on how to compile it for linux?

    Thanks

    nic

  3. Neoraptor Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 9:42 am

    You just have to read the linux-notes.txt :

    == Building e ==

    The easiest way to build is to use the supplied scripts (example shows debug build):

    cd external
    sudo ./get-packages-ubuntu.sh bakefile
    ./get_externals_linux.sh
    ./build_externals_linux.sh debug
    cd ..
    cd src
    make DEBUG=1

    == Packages ==

    If you choose to install packages manually, these are the Ubuntu packages required before building:

    - build-essential
    - libwxgtk2.8-dev
    - libglib2.0-dev
    - libatk1.0-dev
    - libcurl-dev

    Packages required by WebKit:
    - bakefile (ubuntu: http://www.bakefile.org/wiki/Debian)
    - libxml-2.0 (ubuntu: libxml2-dev)
    - libxslt (ubuntu: libxslt1-dev)
    - sqlite3 (ubuntu: libsqlite3-dev)
    - icu (ubuntu: libicu-dev)
    - libjpeg (ubuntu: libjpeg62-dev)

  4. Daniel Serodio Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Awesome news!

  5. marsqing Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    Great!
    I am using Arch x86_64, is ecore imcompatible with x86_64?

    ecore is an x86 library, but if there are enough requests I’ll put up a 64 bit version as well.

  6. Victor Says:
    April 17th, 2009 at 12:23 am

    I must say, I am very excited about this. Does anyone if this will build on Ubuntu 8.04.2?

  7. Zheng Luo Says:
    April 17th, 2009 at 6:34 am

    WOW, can’t wait to have e on my Ubuntu box. Plus one request for 64 bit version ;)

  8. odakynn Says:
    April 17th, 2009 at 7:24 am

    +1 for 64 bit version :)

  9. Lynn Says:
    April 17th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    I am looking forward to this. I go back-and-forth between linux (vim) and Mac (textmate). It will be really great to be able to use the same editor on both. Before someone says it, I know vim is available for mac but TM is so much nicer.