Build instructions (Linux)

Prerequisites

Node.js
clang, development headers of GTK+ and libnotify

On Ubuntu you could install the libraries via:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential clang libdbus-1-dev libgtk2.0-dev libnotify-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib

Latest Node.js could be installed via ppa:

$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

# Update to latest npm
$ sudo npm install npm -g

Getting the code

$ git clone https://github.com/atom/atom-shell.git

Bootstrapping

The bootstrap script will download all necessary build dependencies and create build project files. Notice that we're using ninja to build atom-shell so there is no Makefile generated.

$ cd atom-shell
$ ./script/bootstrap.py

Building

Build both Release and Debug targets:

$ ./script/build.py

You can also only build the Debug target:

$ ./script/build.py -c Debug

After building is done, you can find atom under out/Debug.

Troubleshooting

fatal error: bits/predefs.h: No such file or directory

If you got an error like this:

In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:28:0,
                 from ../../../svnsrc/libgcc/../gcc/tsystem.h:88,
                 from ../../../svnsrc/libgcc/libgcc2.c:29:
/usr/include/features.h:324:26: fatal error: bits/predefs.h: No such file or directory
 #include <bits/predefs.h>

Then you need to install gcc-multilib and g++-multilib, on Ubuntu you can do this:

$ sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib

error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line