SuperSlicer uses the CMake build system and requires several dependencies.
The dependencies can be listed in deps/deps-linux.cmake and deps/deps-unix-common.cmake, although they don't necessarily need to be as recent
as the versions listed - generally versions available on conservative Linux distros such as Debian stable or CentOS should suffice.
Perl is not required anymore.
In a typical situation, one would open a command line, go to the Slic3r sources, create a directory called build or similar,
cd into it and call:
cmake ..
make -jN
where N is the number of CPU cores available.
Additional CMake flags may be applicable as explained below.
You have to gitclone the repository
git clone https://github.com/supermerill/SuperSlicer.git
and then you have to clone the profiles submodules
cd resources/profiles
git submodule update
You can follow the script the build server use to create the ubuntu release.
You have to execute each command at the right of the 'run: ' tags, in the directory that is at the right of the previous 'working-directory:' tag.
You can stop after the make slic3r as the rest of the commands are for building the launch script and the appimage.
By default Slic3r looks for dependencies the default way CMake looks for them, i.e. in default system locations.
On Linux this will typically make Slic3r depend on dynamically loaded libraries from the system, however, Slic3r can be told
to specifically look for static libraries with the SLIC3R_STATIC flag passed to cmake:
cmake .. -DSLIC3R_STATIC=1
Additionally, Slic3r can be built in a static manner mostly independent of the system libraries with a dependencies bundle
created using CMake script in the deps directory (these are not interconnected with the rest of the CMake scripts).
Note: We say mostly independent because it's still expected the system will provide some transitive dependencies, such as GTK for wxWidgets.
To do this, go to the deps directory, create a build subdirectory (or the like) and use:
cmake .. -DDESTDIR=<target destdir>
where the target destdir is a directory of your choosing where the dependencies will be installed.
You can also omit the DESTDIR option to use the default, in that case the destdir will be created inside the build directory where cmake is run.
To pass the destdir path to the top-level Slic3r CMake script, use the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH option along with turning on SLIC3R_STATIC:
cmake .. -DSLIC3R_STATIC=1 -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<path to destdir>/usr/local
Note that /usr/local needs to be appended to the destdir path and also the prefix path should be absolute.
Warning: Once the dependency bundle is installed in a destdir, the destdir cannot be moved elsewhere. This is because wxWidgets hardcode the installation path.
Slic3r need at least wxWidgets 3.1
By default Slic3r builds the release variant. To create a debug build, use the following CMake flag:
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
If you're using GCC/Clang compiler, it is possible to build Slic3r with the built-in address sanitizer enabled to help detect memory-corruption issues. To enable it, simply use the following CMake flag:
-DSLIC3R_ASAN=1
This requires GCC>4.8 or Clang>3.1.
At runtime, Slic3r needs a way to access its resource files. By default, it looks for a resources directory relative to its binary.
If you instead want Slic3r installed in a structure according to the File System Hierarchy Standard, use the SLIC3R_FHS flag
cmake .. -DSLIC3R_FHS=1
This will make Slic3r look for a fixed-location share/slic3r-prusa3d directory instead (note that the location becomes hardcoded).
You can then use the make install target to install Slic3r.
Some hints to be able to build on raspberry pi:
I think that the most important thing is preparing Raspberry Pi. I'm using overclocked to 2GHz RPi 4B 2GB with active cooling(it starts when the temperature is too high). 2GB of RAM is not enough and I turned swap on(+2GB), but i use SSD instead of memory card so it's not that bad. Swap is only needed during compilation, built-in memory is enough to run the GUI.
first, you have to install all the dependencies (you can also try to build them from the deps directory):
sudo apt-get install -y git cmake libboost-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-log-dev libboost-locale-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev build-essential pkg-config libtbb-dev zlib1g-dev libcereal-dev libeigen3-dev libnlopt-cxx-dev libudev-dev libopenvdb-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libnlopt-dev libdbus-1-dev
Running cmake will give information about the remaining missing dependencies. (to be run in a newly created build directory)
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DSLIC3R_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DSLIC3R_GTK = 2
Note that you can also use different parameters, like
cmake .. -DSLIC3R_STATIC=0 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DSLIC3R_FHS=1 -DSLIC3R_GTK=2 -DSLIC3R_PCH=0 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib
Then, when cmake end without errors, you can compile with the make command.
I think it is a good idea to run this command in screen, because it takes a long time to complete and the connection may time out. screen will remain running in the background.
Example:
screen -S superclicer
#new terminal will open
make -j4
and after disconnect:
screen -x
Finally, it remains to run sudo make install
May also be useful to run
sudo systemctl set-environment LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
I'm sure there is some steps missing, please open an issue to let us know or open a pull request by editing this document.