We will need to build libgit2 using cmake so go ahead and enter the following commands, substituting your chosen path for the fritzing folder. Extract it into your fritzing directory and change the folder name to libgit2. Go ahead and download version 0.28.x of libgit2 from the Github releases page. Windows users should download the precompiled binaries from the official website. We can then use Homebrew install cmake with the following command. If you don’t already have Homebrew installed, go ahead and open terminal and enter the following command. However either will be ok so long as you have the tools to extract them. tar.gz version and Windows users will probably want to download the. Go ahead and download the latest version of Boost and extract it into your fritzing directory.Īdvertisements Mac users will probably want to download the. Now that we have the source code we need to download some additional dependencies. zip files, go ahead and rename the folders to fritzing-app and fritzing-parts. If you go the route of downloading and extracting the. Alternatively use the git command from within the fritzing folder. git clone ĭownload the Fritzing parts library and extract it to your newly created fritzing folder. zip file from the Fritzing Github or use the command line with the git command if you have it installed.ĭownload the Fritzing app and extract it to your newly created Fritzing folder. Now we need to download the Fritzing source code from Github. c:/fritzing) Advertisements mkdir ~/fritzing I will be using Mac terminal, Windows users should use their native file structure (e.g. Go ahead and create a fresh directory called fritzing in a memorable location on your hard drive. Whilst you download Qt Creator we can prepare the other required files.

Windows users will also need Visual Studio for building Fritzing. The latter is recommended in the official build guide.

Windows users choose MinGW or msvcXX OpenGL and the latest version of Visual Studio.

You can download it for free using the online installer. In order to build Fritzing you are going to need the latest version of Qt Creator.

Once you have completed the first build, you will be able to quickly build new versions in the future so it is worth spending the time. Setting up the tools for building Fritzing can be a little bit challenging but we will walk through it step-by-step.

Add the subsequent command line argument.

Add the first run command line argument.

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