[Digikam-devel] Please tell me how to compile digikam with exiv2 and kdcraw libraries

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/5/16 Simon Eugster <simon.eu at gmail.com>:
> Ah, thanks a lot.
> Compiling and installing works, but digikam isn't displaying any
> image. Debug output says:
>> digikam(22301)/digikam (core) Digikam::ImageAlbumModel::slotResult: Failed to list url:  "Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
>> klauncher said: Fehler beim Laden von „kio_digikamalbums“
>> ."
> What is the problem here?

Probably a binary compatibility somewhere. Do you have uninstalled
your old digiKam before ?

Gilles Caulier

>
>
> Some change suggestions to the tutorial:
> # svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk
> # mv trunk exiv2
> v
> v
> # svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk exiv2
>
>
> # sudo make install
> v
> v
> # sudo make install -j3    # Make with 3 threads; best: # of cores + 1
>
> Patch CMakeLists.txt to be able to build standalone. Download appended
> patch and place it in your development folder.
> # patch < ../libkexiv2cmake.diff.txt
> v
> v
> Patch CMakeLists.txt to be able to build standalone. Download appended
> patch and place it in your development folder:
> # wget http://www.digikam.org/drupal/system/files/libkexiv2cmake.diff_.txt
> -O ../libkexiv2cmake.diff.txt
> # patch < ../libkexiv2cmake.diff.txt
>
> # chmod 744 env_svn.sh
> v
> v
> # chmod u+x env_svn.sh
>
>
> Simon
>
> 2010/5/16 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
>> Look there :
>>
>> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/download?q=download/SvnAlongStable
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> 2010/5/16 Simon A. Eugster <simon.eu at gmail.com>:
>>> Good Morning,
>>>
>>> I'm using digikam for several years now. Usually from the debian archives.
>>> The problem is that it regularly happens that digikam just does not work
>>> anymore for several weeks, which is kind of unpleaseant if you really need
>>> it (I think you can imagine that). For example, I cannot use digikam from
>>> the debian repos anymore since about half a year now because of a bug in
>>> exiv2 which has been fixed already a long time ago[1].
>>>
>>> Now I somehow managed to crap my system that way that a compiled digikam
>>> worked with also self-compiled libexiv2 and libkexiv2. But other programs
>>> like gthumb just crashed when trying to display images with exif
>>> information. But at least digikam was working, which was the most important
>>> to me.
>>>
>>> The last dist-upgrade again destroyed this. And I'm again sitting on an
>>> unusable debian digikam. (Certainly now as I'd really need to have a
>>> working digikam.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Therefore I'm asking here:
>>> *How do I correctly compile and install digikam, exiv2 and kdcraw?*
>>> (The libraries are not up-to-date in the debian repos.)
>>>
>>> You guys must be doing that all time ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate your help very much.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/show/677
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