[Kdenlive-devel] New version of Kdenlive Builder Wizard - please help me test it for KDE 4

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

Hi all

I have made a new version of the kdenlive builder wizard I created a couple of 
weeks ago.

It has a number of improvements, but I reckon the two most important to this 
list is the ability to build kdenlive4, and the inclusion of gdb debugging 
support in the startup script: if started through the startup script, and gdb 
and kdialog is installed, it will query the user to run through gdb, and in 
case of a crash, retain a log with lots of info in it.

It has been tested on a clean kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.1 applied, where it 
appears to work [see below for steps]. But, in keeping with Dan Dennedys 
advice, I would really (really really) love to get some feedback from this 
list, before I start blowing the horn for it. 

Oh, and perhaps an important note: the wizard configures mlt 
with --disable-qimage because I simply could not figure out a way to reliably 
let the mlt configure system know where to find qimage.h. (Shouldn't the 
sources include Qt/qimage.h at the least, or something?).

I have made the wizard available for testing at 
http://www.dydensborg.dk/software/kbw/kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr

Its a 400 KB download - please give it a try. 

Thanks

Mads

P.S. For the list/google, here are the steps I followed on Kubuntu 8.04 to 
test it:

1) install Kubuntu 8.04
2) apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
3) follow instructions at http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.1 to get kde 4.1 
installed
4) apt-get install kommander subversion g++ cmake pkg-config kdelibs5-dev 
libsdl1.2-dev libxml2-dev
  (This adds more than 100 packages to the system)
5) log out, log in using kde 4.1
6) run "kmdr-executor kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr", follow the instructions 
on-screen. Press "Cancel" after succes, press "open folder", 
click "kdenlive_start" and you are in bussiness.

Note, that this compiles mlt without the modules dv, frei0r, gtk2, jackrack, 
qimage, resample, sox, and vorbis. The logfile does contain instructions on 
getting support for these modules, but the above is a working baseline. 
Search for MLTDISABLED in the log file for more information.

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Mads Bondo Dydensborg   mads at dydensborg.dk   http://www.madsdydensborg.dk/

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