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Developers setup

Requirements

Diffuse depends on these projects:

Python 3.8+
PyPi
Cairo and GObject Introspection development headers
Meson
Flatpak and Flatpak builder

Install the distribution dependencies

It's a bit difficult to get the command lines for all the distributions and their releases, but it should be enough to find the packages on other distributions.

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install python3-pip libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev meson flatpak flatpak-builder

Note: Tested on Debian 11 (Buster) and Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)

Fedora

sudo dnf install python-pip python3-cairo-devel python3-gobject-devel meson flatpak flatpak-builder

Note: Tested on Fedora 34

Install the project dependencies

To install the requirements just to execute the binary, run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

For developer tools, run this one instead (it includes requirements.txt):

pip install -r requirements.dev.txt

Setup on Linux

Build, test and install using Flatpak

To install Diffuse locally:

flatpak install runtime/org.gnome.Sdk/$(uname -p)/42
flatpak-builder --user --install build-flatpak io.github.mightycreak.Diffuse.yml

To run Diffuse through Flatpak:

flatpak run io.github.mightycreak.Diffuse

To uninstall Diffuse:

flatpak remove io.github.mightycreak.Diffuse

Build, test and install using Meson

Diffuse build system is meson.

To compile and test Diffuse:

meson setup build
cd build
meson compile
meson test

To install Diffuse on your system (e.g. /usr/local/):

meson install # requires admin privileges

# Run Diffuse
diffuse

To install Diffuse on a custom directory (e.g. ~/bin/diffuse):

meson install --destdir ~/bin/diffuse

# Run Diffuse
cd ~/bin/diffuse/usr/local/bin
PYTHONPATH=$HOME/bin/diffuse/usr/local/share/diffuse ./diffuse

To uninstall diffuse afterwards:

sudo ninja uninstall -C build
sudo rm -v /usr/local/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/diffuse.mo

Meson allows to change the default installation directories, see command-line documentation.

Setup on Windows

Note: The Windows port is not maintained and would need some love. Contributions are very welcome! 😉

The windows-installer directory contains scripts for building an installable package for Windows that includes all dependencies.

Diffuse can be packaged as a portable application by copying the installation directory to a pen drive and creating a front end that sets the XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIR environment variables prior to launching Diffuse. The XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIR environment variables indicate where Diffuse should store persistent settings (eg. the path to a writable directory on the pen drive).

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