Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME. So it is using only the GTK+ toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK+ runtime libraries to run Geany.
The basic features of Geany are:
- syntax highlighting
- code completion
- auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while
- auto completion of XML and HTML tags
- call tips
- folding
- many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
- symbol lists
- embedded terminal emulation
- extensibility through plugins
Using distribution packages on Linux, BSD and similar distributions is the most easy and recommended way. This way you will also benefit from automatic updates of Geany by the package manager of the distribution.
Packages are available for most distributions like Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and many more.
Prebuilt binary packages for Mac OSX and Windows can be found on http://www.geany.org
For compiling Geany yourself, you will need the GTK2 (>= 2.24) or GTK3 libraries and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries and header files, such as Pango, Glib and ATK. All these files are available at http://www.gtk.org.
Furthermore you need, of course, a C compiler and the Make tool; a C++ compiler is also needed for the required Scintilla library included. The GNU versions of these tools are recommended.
To build the user manual you need rst2html from Docutils. A pre-built version of the manual is available in distribution tarballs and will be used as fallback if rst2html is missing. When building from Git however, that pre-built version is not included and rst2html is required by default. You can explicitly disable building the user manual using the --disable-html-docs configure flag, but this will result in not installing a local version of the user manual, and Geany will then try and open the online version instead when requested.
Note
Building Geany from source on Mac OSX and Windows is more complicated and are out of scope of this document. For more information on building instructions for these platforms, please check the wiki at http://wiki.geany.org/howtos/.
Install Autotools (automake, autoconf and libtool), intltool, and the GLib development files before running any of the following commands, as well as rst2html from Docutils (see above for details). Then, run ./autogen.sh and then follow the instructions for installing from a release tarball.
Run the the following three commands:
$ ./configure
$ make
(as root, or using sudo)
% make installFor more configuration details run ./configure --help
If there are any errors during compilation, check your build environment and try to find the error, otherwise contact the mailing list or one of the authors.
See the manual for details (geany.txt/geany.html).
To run Geany just type:
$ geanyon a console or use the applications menu from your desktop environment. There a few command line options. See the manual page of Geany or run:
$ geany --helpfor details. Or look into the documentation in the doc/ directory. The most important option probably is -c or --config, where you can specify an alternate configuration directory.
Geany is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program. The included Scintilla library (found in the subdirectory scintilla/) has its own license, which can be found in the file scintilla/License.txt included with the source code of this program.
See http://www.geany.org/ If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in Git or diff -u format) to the mailing list or one of the authors. Also see the HACKING file.
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