[kde-edu]: Step: interactive physical simulator

[Vladimir Kuznetsov]

Hello !

This error looks strange for me, I've thought that patched lines is
the correct way of setting compiler options and it works for me...
Anyway I'll apply your patch for now.

Step currently is based on Qt 4.2. Just now I'm downloading KDE4 and
then I'll compile it and start porting Step to it. In order to move it
to kdeplayground I need subversion account. How can I obtain the one ?

UI is even younger that other code so I'll work on it much. However I
have very low experience programming GUIs so in this area any help is
most welcome. I want Step to be usable for education by non-experts,
so good UI is very important.

By the way, one of the things I've thought about when designing
StepCore is molecular dynamics (for example StepCore can easily handle
three-particle potentials), so possibly it can be useful for chemistry
too.

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         Best Regards,
          Vladimir



On 1/27/07, Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus at gmx.de> wrote:
> Moin
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> I just looked at it. Here is the screenie from the homepage:
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> http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=187916
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> It is already using CMake.
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> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
> -- Check size of void*
> -- Check size of void* - done
> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
> -- Using GSL from /usr
> -- Looking for Q_WS_X11
> -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - not found.
> -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC
> -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found.
> -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN
> -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found.
> -- Found Qt-Version 4.2.2
> -- Found Qt-Version 4.2.2
> -- Configuring done
> -- Generating done
> -- Build files have been written to: /home/carsten/svn/step/step/build
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> results in this error:
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> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/carsten/svn/step/step/build'
> /usr/bin/cmake -E
> cmake_progress_report /home/carsten/svn/step/step/build/CMakeFiles 1
> [  2%] Building CXX object stepcore/CMakeFiles/stepcore.dir/world.o
> /usr/bin/c++   ;-Wall -I/home/carsten/svn/step/step/. -I/usr/include/QtXml -I/usr/include/QtCore -I/home/carsten/svn/step/step/build/stepcore   -DSTEPCORE_WITH_GSL -DSTEPCORE_WITH_QT -DQT_SHARED -DQT_XML_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -o
> stepcore/CMakeFiles/stepcore.dir/world.o -c /home/carsten/svn/step/step/stepcore/world.cc
> c++: no input files
> /bin/sh: -Wall: command not found
> make[2]: *** [stepcore/CMakeFiles/stepcore.dir/world.o] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/carsten/svn/step/step/build'
> make[1]: *** [stepcore/CMakeFiles/stepcore.dir/all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/carsten/svn/step/step/build'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
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> This patch to CMakeLists.txt fixes the problem:
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> -set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS ${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -Wall)
> -set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Wall)
> +set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS ${CMAKE_C_FLAGS})
> +set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS})
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> When you port to KDE4 you would use the KDE4-cmake-stuff anyway. By the way,
> KDE4 now depends on CMake 2.4.5.
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> About the app: With the patch it compiles. I am pretty impressed. It seems to
> really work already, though the UI is really not good. But you know that of
> course. I would like to see it in KDE4, why not?
> The first step would be to move it to kdeplayground and port it to Qt4.2 and
> KDE4. After that and some more features you'd move it to kdereview and then
> to kdeedu.
> I am sure some lone souls of the KDE community will help you here and there.
> As the author of Kalzium and a chemistry teacher I would love to have some
> simulations at hand. For example, the charged particle thing.
>
> Carsten
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