Compiling FileZilla 3 and Getting Dependencies on Linux

This documentation explains how to setup a build environment for FileZilla 3 and how to compile it under Debian based distributions. This guide assumes you are using Debian stable, but should work as well on other recent Debian-based distributions.

Setting up build environment

As root, execute:

apt build-dep filezilla libwxgtk3.0-dev
apt install libtool git subversion xdg-utils

Back as normal user, execute:

mkdir ~/prefix
export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
export CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/prefix/include $CPPFLAGS"

Getting dependencies

Note: This guide is for setting up a development environment. To build the latest officially released versions, download and extract the respective source tarballs instead and skip the autoreconf step.

wxWidgets

 cd ~
 git clone --recurse-submodules --branch 3.2 --single-branch https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git wx3
 cd wx3
 ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --enable-unicode
 make && make install

libfilezilla

 cd ~
 svn co https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/libfilezilla/trunk lfz
 cd lfz
 autoreconf -i
 ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static 
 make && make install

Compile Boost Regex

cd ~
wget https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.85.0/source/boost_1_85_0.tar.bz2
tar xf boost_1_85_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_85_0
echo "using gcc :  : x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ ;" > user-config.jam
./bootstrap.sh
./b2 --user-config=./user-config.jam --build-type=minimal --with-regex --prefix=$HOME/prefix install

Compiling FileZilla

 cd ~
 svn co https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/FileZilla3/trunk fz
 cd fz
 autoreconf -i
 ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static 
 make && make install

And you're done. Type filezilla to start FileZilla.