Build instructions (Linux)

Prerequisites

Python 2.7
Node.js
Clang 3.4 or later
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 libgnome-keyring-dev libgconf2-dev \
                       libasound2-dev libcap-dev libcups2-dev libxtst-dev \
                       gcc-multilib g++-multilib

Getting the code

$ git clone https://github.com/atom/electron.git

Bootstrapping

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

$ cd electron
$ ./script/bootstrap.py -v

Building

Build both Release and Debug targets:

$ ./script/build.py

You can also only build the Debug target:

$ ./script/build.py -c D

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

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

libudev.so.0 missing

If you get an error like:

/usr/bin/ld: warning: libudev.so.0, needed by .../vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumcontent.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)

and you are on Ubuntu 13.04+, 64 bit system, try doing

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.3.5 /usr/lib/libudev.so.0

for ubuntu 13.04+ 32 bit systems, try doing

sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.3.5  /usr/lib/libudev.so.0

also see

https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0

Tests

$ ./script/test.py

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