TheIDE

Introduction

This repository acts as a recipe for building TheIDE as a flatpak package. TheIDE is an integrated development environment for the U++ framework. This flatpak brings full experience. It means that after installation, users will be able to build applications using the U++ framework directly from TheIDE.

Local Flatpak Developmenet

Requiremenets

To build this flatpak localy, you need to install following package:

flatpak install org.flatpak.Builder

Additionaly, if you want you can install dependencies manualy, by running following commands:

flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Platform
flatpak install org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.llvm18
flatpak install org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.golang

Building

To build flatpak locally run the following command in your terminal:

flatpak-builder --ccache --user --install --force-clean build-dir org.ultimatepp.TheIDE.yml

The --ccache parameter is higly recommended since it speedsup build time signficiently. Especially in situation when there is a need to build project several times.

Alternativly, if you want to execute full build with dependency installation run:

flatpak run org.flatpak.Builder --force-clean --sandbox --user --install --install-deps-from=flathub --ccache --mirror-screenshots-url=https://dl.flathub.org/repo/screenshots --repo=repo build-dir org.ultimatepp.TheIDE.yml

In case if above command fails on install dependencies step try to use following command:

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Running

To run build flatpak simple run:

flatpak run org.ultimatepp.TheIDE

Uninstalling

To uninstall please execute following command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.ultimatepp.TheIDE

The --delete-data parameter can be skipped, however when there is a need to simulate running TheIDE for the first time, it is required. Also, for making absolute clean run, U++ framework sources that should be placed in ~/.local/src/upp must be deleted. Without it the initial terminal asking about installing host dependencies will not appear.

host-spawn

To generate host-spawn/modules.txt run following command in the host-spawn repository:

go mod vendor

Optimizing size

In order to check flatpak size after local build, the following command can be executed:

flatpak list --app --columns=size,name|sort -g

Known limitations

Below is the list of known problems of this flatpak:

• TheIDE can not play system sound (This requires modification to the liobrary. Will be done in the future)

Essential linsk

If you want to learn more, here is the link to the essential links:

• U++ framework official site
• U++ organization on GitHub