[Kstars-devel] Re: Development Platform

[Rafał Kułaga]

Hi Rakesh,

Thanks for your interest in KStars.

The easiest way to start developing KStars is to install all needed
development packages from your distribution's repository. There's no
need to build everything from source yourself (and, in fact, it's not
recommended). The list of all required packages is available at
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Requirements. It's also
recommended to read through "Getting Started" articles at KDE TechBase
- http://techbase.kde.org/.

Basically, you'll need to install Qt library (with development files
and probably debug symbols), KDE libraries (kdelibs, kdelibs-devel)
and of course KDE core files (kdebase, kdebase-devel).

Recently, KDE migrated from SVN to git. If you have never worked with
it, I recommend you a great book "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon. Its online
version is available at http://progit.org/book/. Chapters 1-3 will
probably suffice :-)

KDE uses CMake build system, so you should have a good grasp of it -
its use is covered by articles available at
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/CMake.

For building KStars you will also need linear algebra library Eigen -
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/.

Don't hesitate to ask if you've got problems building KStars.

Cheers,
Rafał Kułaga


2011/5/18 Rakesh Nath <raknath at gmail.com>:
> Hello all
>
> I am building the development environment for KDE, so I can contribute
> to kstars. The development platform asks me to build a lot of
> applications that it says "then your distribution packages may be
> sufficient for these requirements" and these requirements are if you are
> ONLY developing an application.
>
> I was just wondering if that should do for Kstars. Can someone help me
> with this, because if that is the case then I am more or less done with
> building the platform. Here is where I am
> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE_Development_Platform
>
> --
> --
> Thanks and Regards
> Rakesh Nath
>
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