This repository contains the source code for the KDevelop IDE. It also includes KDevelop Platform (kdevplatform) and most of the plugins.

Other KDevelop plugins can be found in KDevelop Group of KDE GitLab instance.

User documentation is available from: https://userbase.kde.org/KDevelop5/Manual

KDevelop is built the same way as most KDE projects, using CMake to set up a build directory and build options. For detailed instructions how to compile KDevelop, please refer to the Wiki: https://community.kde.org/KDevelop/HowToCompile_v5 .

Most of KDevelop's optional dependencies are opportunistic under the assumption that the build should always use all available functionality, as well as the most recent version. CMake has a lesser known feature to control which of such dependencies is used.

For instance, to skip building the Subversion plugin, use -DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_SubversionLibrary=ON. To use QtWebKit instead of QtWebEngine for documentation rendering when both are available, add -DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_Qt5WebEngineWidgets=ON to the CMake arguments.

If you want to contribute to KDevelop, please read through: https://www.kdevelop.org/contribute-kdevelop

• Bug tracker
• KDE GitLab instance (code review as well as hosting and other important collaboration tasks)
• Phabricator (task tracker until this functionality is migrated to GitLab)

Building from source on MX Linux requires installing most of the KDE development tools.

apt-get install -y libbz2-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev shared-mime-info oxygen-icon-theme libgif-dev libvlc-dev libvlccore-dev doxygen gperf bzr libxapian-dev fontforge libgcrypt20-dev libattr1-dev network-manager-dev libgtk-3-dev xsltproc xserver-xorg-dev xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-dev libpwquality-dev modemmanager-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libepoxy-dev libpolkit-agent-1-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libwww-perl libxml-parser-perl libjson-perl libboost-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libarchive-dev liblmdb-dev cmake git libkomparediff2-dev extra-cmake-modules "libkf5.*-dev" llvm libclang-dev

The libraries libnm-util-dev libnm-glib-dev are not available as of MX 23.2.

use the command apt build-dep -y kdevelop

Installed package libkf5grantleetheme-plugins in addition to others.