ImHex/dist/compiling/linux.md

Compiling ImHex on Linux

Dependency installation scripts are available for many common Linux distributions in the /dist folder. After all the dependencies are installed, run the following commands to build ImHex:

mkdir -p build
cd build
CC=gcc-12 CXX=g++-12 cmake                    \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" 	          \
    -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache        \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache      \
    -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-fuse-ld=lld"            \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fuse-ld=lld"          \
    -DCMAKE_OBJC_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache     \
    -DCMAKE_OBJCXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache   \
    -DRUST_PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin/"           \
    ..
make -j 4 install

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Put the ImHex executable into the /usr/bin folder. Put libimhex.so into the /usr/lib folder. Configuration files go to /usr/etc/imhex or ~/.config/imhex. All other files belong in /usr/share/imhex or ~/.local/share/imhex:

Patterns: /usr/share/imhex/patterns
Pattern Includes: /usr/share/imhex/includes
Magic files: /usr/share/imhex/magic
Python: /usr/share/imhex/lib/pythonX.X
Plugins: /usr/share/imhex/plugins
Configuration: /etc/xdg/imhex/config

All paths follow the XDG Base Directories standard, and can thus be modified with the environment variables XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS.