[Kstars-devel] Re: Help Requested

[Jason Harris]

Hi Mike,

Glad to hear you're looking at using KStars to drive your radio telescope!  
When I was an undergrad, we built a radio telescope from an old TV satellite 
dish and some off-the-shelf servomotors.  Our home-brew control software 
was really rudimentary, running on a 286 with DOS :)

Now, to compile KStars you'll probably need Qt 3.2.x installed.  Sounds like 
you've done this, but configure isn't seeing it.  Are you using the full 
command line:  './configure --prefix=$KDEDIR --with-qt-dir=$QTDIR' ?

If your $QTDIR and $KDEDIR variables are not defined, you should substitute 
the actual installation paths.

If that doesn't help, please send me your config.log file, and the console 
output when you run configure.  Also, let me know what OS and version you are 
using.

Don't worry, we'll get it working.  I am cc-ing the kstars-devel list on this 
message so that other devs can comment as well.

Out of curiosity, is your control hardware a custom setup, or a commercial 
radio telescope system?  I'm sure Jasem Mutlaq (inventor of our INDI support) 
would be interested in adding support for a radio telescope system.

good luck,
Jason

On Monday 12 January 2004 01:41 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across your page and saw that the new version of KStars will include
> the ability to control telescopes via an INDI interface.  I'm building a
> radio telescope and would like to use KStars (over Ethernet) to control the
> telescope and its tracking.  I've downloaded the CVS copy and have had to
> upgrade my automake and autoconf, but 'configure' keeps complaining about
> my version of QT.  I'm running Mandrake 9.2 which has QT 3.1 in it and have
> downloaded the latest QT source code.  I compiled QT and installed it
> successfully, but configure still error's out on my QT version.  I've been
> trying to fix the problem for a couple of days now and can't find anything
> on the net that explains how to properly 'upgrade' QT.  Is there some
> resource you could point me at or suggestion you can make so I can get the
> CVS KStars working?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike De Lange

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