4Coder Community

Welcome to the 4coder community repository.

Building

To build 4coder you only need a C++ compiler (cl, g++, clang++, circle (as of verison 200 it can not build the compiler intrisincs)) By compiling the 4ed_build.cpp file in the root directory and running the resulting binary (most of the code base uses char* for strings in read-only data, to clean up the output we remove those warnings for each compiler).

Compile

Windows

cl /Icode\custom 4ed_build.cpp /Fe4ed_build

Linux

1. Get required libraries (apt names)

   sudo apt install build-essential libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libglx-dev mesa-common-dev libasound2-dev libfreetype-dev libfontconfig-dev

2. Compile

    g++     4ed_build.cpp -Icode/custom  -Wno-write-strings    -o 4ed_build
   

   or (sadly it doesn't build with the circle compiler yet)

    circle  4ed_build.cpp -Icode/custom --Wno-writable-strings -o 4ed_build
   

   or

    clang++ 4ed_build.cpp -Icode/custom  -Wno-write-strings -Wno-null-dereference -o 4ed_build
   

Mac (Untested)

clang++ 4ed_build.cpp -Icode/custom  -Wno-write-strings -Wno-null-dereference -o 4ed_build

Running the build system

The build system takes as input a few flags dev (debug), opt (optimized), custom=<target>. The easiest way of getting 4coder is to run

4ed_build opt

this compiles 4ed (platform layer), 4ed_app.so (core layer), custom_4coder.so (custom layer) and puts the runtime resourses next to the binary (bindings.4coder, config.4coder, font directory, themes directory, and some custom layers).

Custom targets

4coder is split between two layer (core and custom). If at build time the custom=<target> is specified the build system will build the <target>/<target>.cpp. By cloning this repo recursively, some example custom layers will also be cloned and can be built by passing the name of the folder as argument to the build system. Build 4coder_byp for a vim like experience or build 4coder_fleury for a emacs like experience. 4coder is emacs like by default, but the 4coder_fleury custom layer has more features then what you get out of the box.

4ed_build opt custom=4coder_byp

or

4ed_build opt custom=4coder_fleury

Getting started on working on a custom layer

There is an articlewriten by MrMixer on the 4coder - HandMade Network: https://4coder.handmade.network/forums/articles/t/7319-customization_layer_-_getting_started__4coder_4.1_