[Ktechlab-devel] Project components dependencies

[P Zoltan]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:36:10 +0100, Julian Bäume <julian at svg4all.de> wrote:

> hey,
>

> Did you run kbuildsycoca4 after make install? This is needed for the
> KPluginLoader to recognise the installed desktop file to know about the
> plugins you installed. You also need to set the environment variables to  
> also
> contain your local ktechlab installation (this is needed for  
> kbuildsycoca4 to
> find  the desktop file and stuff like that) I described that in the wiki:
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ktechlab/index.php?title=Compiling_the_source
> Just scroll to the bottom of the page..

  Okay, now I have the ktechlab plugins in that list. Still, after  
activating them, I can't open or create new circuit. What should be done  
to see something?

>
> If this doesn't help, run kdebugdialog and select debug from  
> KPluginLoader and
> kdevplatform (shell). After that you should be able to see the problem  
> in the
> output in a terminal.

  If course I have only the kde3 version installed. But as I've read on the  
web, it just edits ~/.kde4/share/config/kdebugrc . So a "full debug"  
version of that file should be enough.

>
> Just a short introductions how plugins work:
> You create a shared library and a .desktop file. This contains meta-data  
> to
> describe your plugin, the shared library, of course, contains object  
> code.
> After that KDE needs to be aware of that plugin. This is done by
> kbuildsycoca4. Then you will be able to load the .so files with  
> KPluginLoader.
> Since we use KDevPlatforms plugin system, this is even more easy. You  
> can ask
> the KDevelop::PluginLoader to load plugins. There are some ways to  
> describe,
> which plugins you want to load. But more about that later.
>
> bye then
> julian