[Kstars-devel] problem compiling cvs to add a little feature

[Jason Harris]

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 02:18 pm, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> Jason Harris wrote:
> >>I would like to contribute some work to Kstars. Now I've quite finished
> >>with the new house and I should have more time for Kstars :)
> >
> > Excellent!  If you want, you can start with improving the filtering in
> > the Find Object window.  Or take a look at the "TODO" section of the 3.3
> > feature plan:
> > http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.3-features.html
>
> Yes but I need to be able to compile kstars at least :(
>
For now, you can just skip the indi directory by changing the file 
kstars/kstars/Makefile.am.  Make the "kstars_LDADD" and "SUBDIRS" lines look 
like this:

-----------
kstars_LDADD = tools/libkstarstools.a 
$(top_builddir)/libkdeedu/kdeeduplot/libkdeeduplot.la 
$(top_builddir)/libkdeedu/extdate/libextdate.la -lkdeprint -lm

SUBDIRS = tools . data icons 
-----------

then run 'make -f Makefile.cvs' and './configure' again (both in kdeedu dir).

> Another thing: I've never developed a KDE application, althought I've
> used Qt in the past. When compiling a "test" Kstars tree, is it ok if I
> specify a --prefix wich has nothing to do with the current KDE
> installation to not mess up all the things?
>
Hmm, it's difficult, because I think it may use the prefix argument to look 
for your KDE libs and includes as well.  You might want to try something like 
this:

./configure --prefix=/path/to/fake/target --with-qt-dir=$QTDIR 
--includedir=$KDEDIR/include --libdir=$KDEDIR/lib

but I don't know that it will work...

good luck,
Jason
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