Kstars compiling from source

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Thank you for the suggestion. Indeed it should use PIC by default. Changes
are pushed to both stable-3.8.1 and master branches of KStars.

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 8:58 AM <ts2018 at sy-edm.com> wrote:

> I am trying to build Kstars from Source - as I am experiencing an issue
> when trying to Polar Align using 3 plate solves (That is for another day)
>
> So I am using Arch Linux - having given up with Ubuntu.
>
> I should also point out that I have QT installed (version 6.10.2) as a
> development package.
>
> So my workflow is
>
> git clone kstars (etc)
> mkdir kstars/build
> cd kstars/build
> ./t.sh # This is my build command script which looks like this
>
>
> This is t.sh
>
> QT_ROOT=$(qmake6 -query QT_INSTALL_PREFIX)
> echo "QT is based at $QT_ROOT"
> cmake \
>   -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$QT_ROOT \
>   -DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH=$QT_ROOT/lib \
>   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH=$QT_ROOT/lib \
>   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH=TRUE \
>   -DQt6_DIR=$QT_ROOT/lib/cmake/Qt6 \
>   -DBUILD_WITH_QT6=ON \
>   -DQT_DEBUG_FIND_PACKAGE=ON \
>   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
>   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
>   -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
>   ..
>
>
> This will fail due to PIC code alignment
>
> To fix this please change the datahandlers/CMakeLists.txt
>
> And instead of only RaspberryPi using POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON
>
> Change to something like this
>
> #if (BUILD_PYKSTARS)     ● Extra spaces between 'if' and its ()
>  set_target_properties(LibKSDataHandlers PROPERTIES
> POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
> #ENDIF ()
>
> Kstars now builds - and apart from some manual data setup. Looks Ok (I
> think)
>
> Many thanks for this great software
>
>   Tim
>
>
>
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