Build instructions (Linux)

Prerequisites

node.js
clang and headers of GTK+ and libnotify

On Ubuntu you could install the libraries via:

$ sudo apt-get install clang libgtk2.0-dev libnotify-dev

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.app under out/Debug.

Troubleshooting

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

Tests

$ ./script/test.py

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