Kalzium Contribution

Jeremy Whiting jpwhiting at kde.org
Thu Dec 11 13:39:56 UTC 2014 

Well currently there are no Kalzium developers, but if you ask on this list
or in #kde-edu someone can probably help you figure stuff out.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Samikshan Bairagya <samikshan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Shalin Shah <shalinshah1993 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Imported it in Qt Creator. Re-ran the CMAKE with arguments and bingo,
> > Kalzium is working just fine. Now, I'm interested in fixing bugs and
> adding
> > features.
> >
> > Like yesterday I was suggested on IRC to fix bug 334789. Now, before
> fixing
> > bug I need to understand the code. So, is there any documentation or
> > something which I can read so that I can understand which .cpp file does
> > what function?
> >
>
> To understand the code, you need to read through it and try and
> understand the control flow. The header and the corresponding
> .cpp files should be having reasonable amount of documentation.
> If you feel any portion of the code is under-documented, you are
> welcome to add documentation yourself. However, do follow the
> documentation policy [1]. Also if you have difficulty with specific
> sections of the codebase, you can surely find help from Kalzium
> developers.
>
> Happy hacking.
>
> > Yours Sincerely,
> > Shalin Shah
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Shalin Shah <shalinshah1993 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Ok, so all the build steps are done? If so, now, I guess I'll have to
> >> import it to Qt Creator right?
> >>
> >> Yours Sincerely,
> >> Shalin Shah
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Now run it and find and fix bugs I guess. The next step is up to you
> >>> really, what would you like to do?
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Shalin Shah <
> shalinshah1993 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Alright! I guess that worked, though I needed root privileges to run
> >>>> make install.
> >>>>
> >>>> Now, what next?
> >>>>
> >>>> Yours Sincerely,
> >>>> Shalin Shah
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yep, I can't remember why ubuntu and debian named their kdelibs 4
> >>>>> packages kdelibs5 but you want kdelibs5-dev to build kalzium master
> branch
> >>>>> which is based on kdelibs4 and qt4.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Shalin Shah <
> shalinshah1993 at gmail.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So, I did apt-cache search kdelibs but I get kdelibs5 not 4. Here
> see
> >>>>>> :
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> shalin at Shalin-MacBookPro:~/kalzium/build > apt-cache search kdelibs
> >>>>>> kdelibs-bin - core executables for KDE Applications
> >>>>>> kdelibs5-data - core shared data for all KDE Applications
> >>>>>> kdelibs5-dbg - debugging symbols for the KDE Development Platform
> >>>>>> libraries
> >>>>>> kdelibs5-dev - development files for the KDE Development Platform
> >>>>>> libraries
> >>>>>> kdelibs5-plugins - core plugins for KDE Applications
> >>>>>> krosspython - Python module for Kross
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Yours Sincerely,
> >>>>>> Shalin Shah
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org
> >
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Yep, looks like you need kdelibs4 devel package in order to build
> >>>>>>> kalzium. I'm not sure what the package is called on linux mint but
> you
> >>>>>>> should be able to find it with apt-cache search kdelibs.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Shalin Shah
> >>>>>>> <shalinshah1993 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Yes, following that, I did clone the repository. Now, however,
> while
> >>>>>>>> I was to do cmake I got an error. Please see this :
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> shalin at Shalin-MacBookPro:~/kalzium/build > cmake ../
> >>>>>>>> -- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.8.2
> >>>>>>>> -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.8.2
> >>>>>>>> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
> >>>>>>>> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
> >>>>>>>> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
> >>>>>>>> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
> >>>>>>>> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
> >>>>>>>> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
> >>>>>>>> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
> >>>>>>>> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
> >>>>>>>> CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98
> >>>>>>>> (message):
> >>>>>>>>   ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> /home/shalin/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/mintkde-default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
> >>>>>>>> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >>>>>>>>   CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
> >>>>>>>>   No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code
> such
> >>>>>>>> as
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>     cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>   should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified
> may
> >>>>>>>> be lower
> >>>>>>>>   if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.
> For
> >>>>>>>> more
> >>>>>>>>   information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
> >>>>>>>> This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress
> >>>>>>>> it.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> >>>>>>>> See also "/home/shalin/kalzium/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Then I added the link of minimum cmake version in the
> CMakeList.txt
> >>>>>>>> file and the error I got was as under -
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> shalin at Shalin-MacBookPro:~/kalzium/build > cmake ../
> >>>>>>>> CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98
> >>>>>>>> (message):
> >>>>>>>>   ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> /home/shalin/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/mintkde-default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
> >>>>>>>> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >>>>>>>>   CMakeLists.txt:7 (find_package)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> >>>>>>>> See also "/home/shalin/kalzium/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Don't we have to set up KDE environment and all before building
> this
> >>>>>>>> code?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Yours Sincerely,
> >>>>>>>> Shalin Shah
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Shalin Shah
> >>>>>>>> <shalinshah1993 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Yes, following that I did clone the repository. Now, however,
> while
> >>>>>>>>> I was t doing cmake I got an error.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> shalin at Shalin-MacBookPro:~/kalzium/build > cmake ../
> >>>>>>>>> -- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.8.2
> >>>>>>>>> -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.8.2
> >>>>>>>>> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
> >>>>>>>>> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
> >>>>>>>>> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
> >>>>>>>>> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
> >>>>>>>>> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
> >>>>>>>>> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
> >>>>>>>>> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
> >>>>>>>>> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
> >>>>>>>>> CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98
> >>>>>>>>> (message):
> >>>>>>>>>   ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> /home/shalin/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/mintkde-default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
> >>>>>>>>> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >>>>>>>>>   CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package)
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
> >>>>>>>>>   No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code
> >>>>>>>>> such as
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>     cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>   should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified
> >>>>>>>>> may be lower
> >>>>>>>>>   if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.
> >>>>>>>>> For more
> >>>>>>>>>   information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
> >>>>>>>>> This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress
> >>>>>>>>> it.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> >>>>>>>>> See also "/home/shalin/kalzium/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Then I added the link of minimum cmake version in the
> CMakeList.txt
> >>>>>>>>> file and the error I got was as under -
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> shalin at Shalin-MacBookPro:~/kalzium/build > cmake ../
> >>>>>>>>> CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98
> >>>>>>>>> (message):
> >>>>>>>>>   ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> /home/shalin/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/mintkde-default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
> >>>>>>>>> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >>>>>>>>>   CMakeLists.txt:7 (find_package)
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> >>>>>>>>> See also "/home/shalin/kalzium/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Also, I've attached the error log file with this email.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Don't we have to set up KDE environment and all before building
> >>>>>>>>> this code?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Yours Sincerely,
> >>>>>>>>> Shalin Shah
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Jeremy Whiting <
> jpwhiting at kde.org>
> >>>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Shalin,
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> I thought the kstars building instructions would help. You clone
> >>>>>>>>>> from anongit.kde.org/kalzium, build with
> >>>>>>>>>> mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../ && make && make install
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> It depends on eigen3 and some other libraries such as Qt4.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> BR,
> >>>>>>>>>> Jeremy
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Shalin Shah
> >>>>>>>>>> <shalinshah1993 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> I'm a senior at DA-IICT, India and I'm interested in
> contributing
> >>>>>>>>>>> to Kalzium.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Can you give me some links on where to start and also how to
> >>>>>>>>>>> build Kalzium on my Linux MINT? What are the dependencies and
> libraries
> >>>>>>>>>>> required?
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Thank-you.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> With Regards,
> >>>>>>>>>>> Shalin Shah
> >>>>>>>>>>>
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>
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> Samikshan Bairagya,
> KDE India | Red Hat
> http://samxan.wordpress.com
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