Introduction

SolidOak is a simple IDE for Rust. See the website for binary releases. It has the following features:

• An embedded copy of Neovim as its text editor
  • On first launch, it will create ~/.soak and ~/.soakrc (equivalent to ~/.vim and ~/.vimrc)
  • It starts off in "Easy Mode" (locked in insert mode) for Vim newbies, but you can toggle it off
• An easy-to-use GUI written with gtk-rs
  • Buttons for common editing actions and a project tree that stays in sync with Neovim
  • You can bypass the GUI and run it as a console app by passing the -nw flag
• Autocomplete via Racer
  • The binary releases come bundled with it, so no configuration is necessary

Build Instructions

Note: If neovim fails to build, try cloning it directly and running make libnvim to get more specific errors.

Linux (apt-get)

apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libglib2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libvte-2.90-dev
apt-get install libtool autoconf automake cmake libncurses5-dev g++ pkg-config unzip
cargo build --release

Linux (yum)

yum install gtk3-devel glib2-devel vte3-devel
yum install autoconf automake cmake gcc gcc-c++ libtool ncurses-devel pkgconfig
cargo build --release

OS X (homebrew)

brew install gtk+3
# NOTE: the next line must be run directly in this project, because it is a local file
brew install vte3.rb
brew install libtool automake cmake pkg-config gettext
cargo build --release

OS X (macports)

port install gtk3 vte-2.90
port install libtool automake cmake pkgconfig gettext
cargo build --release

Windows is not supported

To support Windows, we would need to get rgtk and neovim-rs to build for it. Additionally, we would need to find a replacement for all the Posix-specific functions being used in src/ffi.rs.

Licensing

All files that originate from this project are dedicated to the public domain. I would love pull requests, and will assume that they are also dedicated to the public domain.