# Readme for EDE

Thank you for showing interest in EDE project. EDE is small and fast desktop environment that uses FLTK Toolkit. For more details and philosophy behind it, check about EDE on our wiki.

As every software project, EDE is always in development so your contribution is always welcome!

## Build requirements

EDE is using FLTK toolkit from www.fltk.org. At the time of this writing, latest stable tree is 1.3.x.

Since FLTK lacks many things needed for developing a full *nix desktop environment, we have developed a small add-on library called edelib. This library is also required for compiling EDE and is released together with EDE.

We strongly recommend that you use matching versions of EDE and edelib (e.g. released at the same time) or you make repository checkout at the same time due their frequent changes.

Also you will need a jam tool. Jam is a make replacement and you will find it on our repository.

## Downloading the code

The best way to download latest code is checking it out from our repository. These modules you should checkout (with their paths):

- jam : svn co https://ede.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ede/trunk/jam

- edelib : svn co https://ede.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ede/trunk/edelib

- ede : svn co https://ede.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ede/trunk/ede2

If you already have Jam installed, there is no need to download it.

## Compiling and installing

In order to build and install EDE do the following steps:

1. compile and install jam first; going to jam source directory and running make will do the job; after that you should get bin.YOUR_PLATFORM directory (on Linux it will be bin.linux) and copy jam executable in your $PATH, e.g. /usr/local/bin

2. compile and install edelib; please read README file in edelib directory

3. go in ede2 directory and run ./autogen.sh

4. after that, goes ./configure —enable-debug

5. jam

6. jam install

Please note how this document is quick and short tutorial about EDE installation. For more details, please check Installation Howto on our wiki.