### Compilation on unix platforms

If you plan to contribute code, pgAdmin3 requires wxWidgets 2.5.3. On Mac OSX systems, you may need to use a newer CVS snapshot (the OSX port of pgAdmin is currently experimental). Use a recent GNU/Linux distro because recent versions of GTK2.2, automake and autoconf are needed. You will also need a copy of PostgreSQL on your development system to link libpq. We recommend using libpq 7.4 or newer, compiled with --enable-thread-safety.

1. Download wxWidgets 2.5.3 from the wxWidgets website.

       # wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxWidgets/wxGTK-2.5.3.tar.gz
       # tar -zxf wxGTK-2.5.3.tar.gz

2. Install wxWidgets from source as follows:

       # cd wxWidgets-2.5.3
       # ./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode --disable-shared --enable-debug
       # make
       # make install
       # ldconfig

3. Install the wxWidgets Styled Text Control as follows:

       # cd contrib/src/stc
       # make
       # make install
       # ldconfig

4. Download and unpack the pgAdmin source code.

       If you wish to use CVS code:

       # CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.pgadmin.org:/projects export CVSROOT
       # cvs login
       # cvs -z9 checkout pgadmin3
       # cd pgadmin3
       # sh bootstrap

       or, if you wish to use the latest source tarball:

       # wget http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/pgadmin3-src.tar.gz
       # tar -zxvf pgadmin3-src.tar.gz
       # cd pgadmin3

       Now the source is downloaded:

       # ./configure --enable-static --enable-debug
       # make all
       # make install

If you are compiling on FreeBSD, please see these additional notes.