Help sought to build KDE SC & Qt Framework.

[Ankit Bhatnagar]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Ankit Bhatnagar <
> ankitbhatnagar2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Andreas Cord-Landwehr <
>> phoenixx at uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> On Wednesday 28 December 2011 12:41:50 Ankit Bhatnagar wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hello,
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > I've been trying to build my SC, but haven't had much progress into
>>> it. I
>>>
>>> > have tried using the Project Neon method of doing it and I could
>>> manage a
>>>
>>> > bit of it altogether. Now, could anyone guide me in ---
>>>
>>> > 1) Building my KDE SC
>>>
>>> > 2) then the specific project framework; I've already begun working for
>>> KDE
>>>
>>> > EDU ( Rocs & Kalgebra, at present)
>>>
>>> > 3) and last the Qt Framework also, if at all.
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > Also comment on, if Project Neon should be the appropriate method of
>>>
>>> > building my environment or I go the traditional way, scratch from
>>> source.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Ankit,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> usually it is not necessary to build the full KDE SC plus Qt by yourself
>>> only to be able to work on one of the EDU applications. In most cases it
>>> sufficies to install the *-dev packages by your distribution (those
>>> packages are often indicated by *-dev postfix).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For compile und install Rocs, I wrote this rather short howto some time
>>> ago:
>>>
>>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Edu/Rocs
>>>
>>> However, for compiling the development packages for kdelibs, Qt and
>>> Boost must be installed.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> Thanks for the information.
>> I guess, I didn't furnish all the information straightaway. I had rather
>> meant for "development" of the above-mentioned apps. I am willing to
>> contribute to KDE EDU and thus, I require the so-said software compilations.
>>
>> Wishes.
>> Ankit.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
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> Well if you already started to do something, maybe you can tell us what
> are you doing that doesn't work?
> The workflow is easy.
> 1. git clone
>

git cloning is working alright; though I still cannot make of "ALL" the
repositories that I need to clone/pull. Can you enlist the core
repositories that I should clone, at the bare minimum.


> 2. cmake
>

I make of what cmake does, what I'm still not at that stage, obviously
since, I still dont have all the repositories.

Given all that, the points below are still a way to go. :)


> 3. make
> 4. make install
> 5. execute
>
> usually you'll iterate through 3 and 5.
>
> I'm very apologetic, if it's getting a bit too basic, but I'll be
thankful, if you could find me a way out.

Wishes.
Ankit.


> Aleix
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