Compiling Geany is quite easy. The following should do it:

					% ./configure
					% make
					% make install

The configure script supports several common options, for a detailed list, type

					% ./configure --help

There also some compile time options which can be found in src/geany.h. Please see the section called “Compile time options” for more information.

In the case that your system lacks dynamic linking loader support, you probably want to pass the option --disable-vte to the configure script. This prevents compiling Geany with dynamic linking loader support to automatically load libvte.so.4 if available.

Geany has been successfully compiled and tested under Debian 3.1 Sarge, Debian 4.0 Etch, Fedora Core 3/4/5, LinuxFromScratch and FreeBSD 6.0. It also compiles under Microsoft Windows™.

If there are any errors during compilation, check your build environment and try to find the error, otherwise contact the author at <enrico.troeger@uvena.de>.