GetTheSource

Source of official releases

The latest RetroShare source code package (*.tar.gz) can be downloaded here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/retroshare/files/RetroShare/

Just open the folder with the latest version.

Source of the current development version

This is the recommended way if you are working on RetroShare

Commandline (Unix/Linux/Mac OS X)

You need Subversion to download the latest, live snapshot of the development tree.

Start by reading the SVN page and then use the repository located at: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/retroshare/code

  svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/retroshare/code/trunk retroshare  

This should create ~/retroshare/libretroshare, ~/retroshare/retroshare-gui etc.

Cygwin Commandline (Windows)

• Download and install cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/
• During installation, when asked to select packages, select "Subversion" under "Devel"
• Open cygwin from start button

Run:

$ mkdir src
$ cd src
$ svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/retroshare/code/trunk retroshare

GUI (Windows)

First you need to download TortoiseSVN from here and install it.

Now go to "C:\Development" Directory with Explorer.

And do Right Click "SVN Checkout":

Now type in URL of repository this: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/retroshare/code/trunk

Then Click on OK and you get the latest sources from SVN.
Delete the existing Makefile from "libretroshare\src\Makefile". Qt creates a new Makefile.