How To Open, Debug & Compile The IDE

The Gambas IDE is written in Gambas. So the IDE source project can be loaded into the IDE for editing.

• Be sure you already have Gambas IDE installed.

• Download a Gambas source code version from gitlab...

Stable Version https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/archive/stable/gambas-stable.zip

Development Version https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/archive/master/gambas-master.zip

• Run your already installed Gambas IDE.

• Lets assume you have un-archived the source into a folder called ~/gambas-source. so Open Project ~/gambas-source/app/src/gambas3

• Now you have the gambas IDE project loaded in the gambas IDE.

• Press the Start Button

• You now see another Gambas IDE is running through the existing Gambas. You can open projects as normal ...

• Close the running projects.

• Modify something in the IDE source code. (Maybe add some debugging messages)

• Save the project and compile the exe using the "make executable" option.

~/gambas-source/app/src/gambas3/gambas3.gambas will have been created and you can use this instead of the installed version.

Or you can copy the new executable to /usr/bin/gambas3.gambas and overwrite the installed version.