Fritzing - Building & Compiling

I don’t see boost in the list, and it is a requirement if it isn’t already present in your system (which it may be). The official build docs (which aren’t quite complete for Windows and Linux) are here:

I have some extra docs of what worked for me on Linux (and I expect the Mac will be at least similar) here:

One thing that may be biting you is on Linux it is necessary to sym link the libgit2 library in order for the build to work before the install script (which packages the whole mess) is run. The parts library and the libgit2 directory need to be in the same directory as the fritzing-parts repo, boost needs to be in fritzing-app/src/lib (I think it may also find a system version, but I always install the latest in fritzing-app/src/lib . As well I assume you changed the “path/to/” to the real path to the associated directories? This also only needs to be run once to build the parts database, on the next run you delete it. It will in fact start build the parts db and then exit Fritzing when run, I think it is the same as doing rebuild the parts db from within Fritzing. The documentation for building is rather sparse and somewhat dated but does work at least on Windows and Linux.

Peter