help build kde-connect kde

[Holger Kaelberer]

On 09.05.2015 15:26, vineet garg wrote:
> Hi,
> Qca refers to Qt cryptographic architecture. We are using that for encryption purposes. So to build
> kde connect, you need to install that first. There are currently two versions of Qca available on
> repository. Make sure to install libqca-qt5-2 package and also it's dev or headers package.
> Sometimes an earlier version of Qca is already installed, so you have to change the symlink also or
> if it is not present make a new one called libqca.so pointing to libqca-qt5.so library, in your
> /usr/libs/x86_64-linux-gnu folder.
> Similarly install any other package and its dev package also like this which is shown missing during
> build. Symlink part won't be needed fir any other library they will be automatically generated.

A good shortcut for debian based distros is often something like

apt-get build-dep  kdeconnect

(if the source you want to build is not too new with respect to the distro's version.)

Holger

> I hope this will help.
> Cheers
> Vineet
>
> On 09-May-2015 6:37 PM, "Konstantinos Athanasiou" <dinosath0 at gmail.com <mailto:dinosath0 at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     Hello, i have a problem building kde-connect kde master branch in ubuntu 15.04. At first cmake
>     couldn't find KF5Config.cmake . after a reply from kver who had the exact same problem i
>     installed some dependencies but now i get the following errors:
>
>     CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:15 (find_package):
>        By not providing "FindQca-qt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
>        asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qca-qt5", but
>        CMake did not find one.
>
>        Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qca-qt5"
>        (requested version 2.1.0) with any of the following names:
>
>          Qca-qt5Config.cmake
>          qca-qt5-config.cmake
>
>        Add the installation prefix of "Qca-qt5" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
>        "Qca-qt5_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
>        "Qca-qt5" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
>        been installed.
>
>
>     Can someone add instructions for building kde-connect kde in the readme or the kde connect kde
>     community wiki?
>
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