A couple of questions

[Robert Lancaster]

Hi Hannah and Jasem,

I think I solved the QT Quick issue for QT Creator.  It was just an
environment variable QML2_IMPORT_PATH was not being set properly in QT
Creator.  That is not the first time the issue has been environment
variables.  Sorry about that, it was not a craft issue at all.  This
variable will probably be set properly when KStars is fully built I would
expect, but if not, I know now what caused it.

Thanks,

Rob


On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 4:49 PM Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nope, I spoke too soon.  But apparently it is possibly not an issue with
> craft.  As soon as craft builds it with my recipes, if I run it, it works
> just fine.  But if I try to bring it into QT Creator, and then edit it the
> way I have been doing it since June, the QT Quick issue shows up.  So this
> doesn't appear to be an issue with Craft per se, but an issue possibly with
> QT Creator using Craft's qt.  I will investigate.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 1:44 PM Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hannah,
>>
>> It looks to me like the QT Quick issues that I mentioned first in this
>> email are now fixed.  After I built KStars, it did not crash due to the
>> error.  Thank you very much!
>>
>> I think I may have just solved the issue with FFTW as well.  I believe
>> that the reason the program that needed FFTW headers to build could not
>> find the header files was due to an issue in the cmakelist.txt of that
>> program, not with my recipe for FFTW itself.  I had already solved this
>> problem in the cmakelist for building INDIServer using craft, but my change
>> to the include directory there didn’t trickle down to all of the INDI
>> libraries.  So I just sent a pull request to Jasem to fix this issue.
>>
>> That means I think that the only remaining issue that I sent in this
>> email then, is SCONS/GPSD.
>>
>> So I think now I can work on figuring out what changes will need to be
>> made in order for craft to package this up nicely into a DMG the same way
>> our script does.
>>
>> Also as I mentioned, I might be ready in the next week or two to send
>> these recipes to somebody for feedback/finishing.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> > On Nov 17, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Hannah,
>> >
>> > I think one of these issues should be solved.  Jasem removed the
>> requirement fo Boost-Regex for INDI, so that one doesn’t matter anymore.
>> So one less headache to worry about.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Rob
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Nov 3, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Hannah,
>> >>
>> >> First, thank you for your help last week.  I fixed a few problems with
>> my recipes where things changed since I worked on it this summer and now
>> just about everything works again.  Last summer I was at the point where
>> there were just 3 things that I needed to install with homebrew to get
>> KStars to fully build for Mac in craft.  They included gpsd, fftw, and
>> boost.  After I did a little work this week, I think the recipes are back
>> to that point again.  I would like get recipes working for those 3 things,
>> but none of them are hugely critical so we could either use homebrew with
>> them for now or remove them from the build and KStars would still work.  I
>> separated my questions below into 2 sections, the ones that deal with those
>> 3 packages, and other questions that are more important.  The goal is to
>> get it all up and running so KStars and its dependencies can all be built
>> with craft, but if those 3 things I mentioned are not done yet, it's not a
>> huge problem.
>> >>
>> >> First the really important questions:
>> >>
>> >> 1. The most important question is for qtquick.  After I get kstars
>> built and everything appears to be working, if I try to run anything in
>> kstars that is based on qml such as the What’s Interesting window or the
>> Mount Box, it gets a segmentation fault and says it can’t find qtquick.
>> This used to work just fine, so something got changed.  I sent my recipes
>> to Jasem today so he can test it out to verify this.  This is true if I try
>> to run it in QT Creator or if I try to run it after it is built with
>> craft.  What information would you need to help diagnose this problem?
>> >>
>> >> 2. Very soon, I will be ready to have somebody take a look at all
>> these recipes that I needed to get KStars fully building on Mac with
>> craft.  There are around 40 of them.  Jasem can certainly look at them, but
>> is there somebody specific to craft who should look at them?  I have not
>> tested any of it on windows, so I don’t know if something would need to be
>> done to these recipes to modify them or set them apart.  (Though it would
>> be really great to get KStars on windows to include many of the things that
>> my recipes build on Mac now). Also I don’t know what the procedure would be
>> to get them up and running so anybody can use them.  What would be the next
>> steps?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Now the ones that are less time critical.  For right now I would like
>> your opinions about them, especially if there is something easy that would
>> fix them, but we don’t need to spend a lot of time now trying to solve them:
>> >>
>> >> 1.  GPSD/SCONS  One of the dependencies for INDI 3rd Party is gpsd.
>> We have been using gpsd installed with home-brew for awhile now.  To build
>> it with craft, it looks like it needs scons.  I see that kde thought about
>> using scons for building in the past, but adopted cmake instead.  Does
>> Craft have a way to build with scons like it does with autotools?   It
>> looks to me like scons is more like a build system like autotools than it
>> is like a package, so I would assume that scons would need to be in the
>> build system in order to work.  Would this be correct? I did try a couple
>> of things.  I tried to install scons using system commands in a craft
>> recipe.  That mostly worked, but the engine files seem to be in the wrong
>> place.  The other option appears to be to install scons using
>> PipPackageBase, but that causes an error due to permissions since it tries
>> to install in /usr/local instead of somewhere in craft.  What would be your
>> suggestion, to try and get scons installing using PIP, with system
>> commands, or do you need to set up a new Build System for Scons builds?
>> >>
>> >> 2.  BOOST-REGEX and FFTW.  There is a recipe for Boost regex and I
>> wrote a recipe for FFTW.  Both of them seem to install, but when I try to
>> install the programs that rely on them, those programs cannot find the
>> files for these 2 programs for some reason.  When I install these 2 in
>> homebrew, the programs that depend on them install in craft just fine, but
>> when I install these 2 in craft, the programs that depend on them can’t
>> find their library/include files.  The problem is probably similar.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I can send you craft logs and/or recipes for any of these things that
>> you might need, just let me know what would be most useful.
>> >>
>> >> Thank you very much for your time and help.  It will be worth it if we
>> can get this all up and running.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Rob
>> >
>>
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-windows/attachments/20181118/82c79452/attachment.html>