[Okular-devel] Greetings - William Oliver

[William Oliver]

Thanks Sumit. I'll get it to build when I get home.
On Dec 2, 2015 2:05 AM, "Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU)" <
sumit.sahrawat.apm13 at iitbhu.ac.in> wrote:

> Hi William,
>
> I've also just started contributing to Okular, so I think I can help.
>
> I didn't know anything when I started, and now that I'm working on Okular,
> I find myself referring the Qt4 docs a lot.
>
> To build, this is what I'd do,
>
>     cd /path/to/okular
>     mkdir build
>     cd build
>     cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PWD/install-dir
> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull
>
> This sets up a build environment which doesn't disturb your original
> installation, and installs in build/install-dir instead of the global space.
>
> Also, you'd need to run
>
>     export KDEDIRS=path/to/okular/build/install-dir
>
> In every terminal before you use it to build okular so that the created
> binary works with the modifications you've done. Otherwise it just uses the
> global installation's files. I'd put that in your .bashrc/.zshrc etc.
>
> The installed binary will be in install-dir/bin
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On 2 December 2015 at 06:42, William Oliver <kingweko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I've been using Okular for a while now and It is by far my favorite pdf
>> reader for Ubuntu, and I wanted to help out with development. I was
>> wondering if there was anything I should know before I started looking
>> through the code and finding a bug to work on. I haven't used any of the
>> other KDE software, but it seems like there are some standard KDE
>> dependencies and code conventions. Are there any that I should be aware of?
>>
>> Also, I couldn't seem to find any build instructions. So I assume it is
>> just a standard cmake + qt build scenario. Is this correct?
>>
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>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Sumit Sahrawat
>
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