Editing 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.