[Panel-devel] KDE4 Development Environment

[Georges A.K.]

Great thx ! I will try this tomorrow and hopefully, I'll have a kde4
env up and running to start hacking on it.

Good job,
Georges.

On 7/10/05, Matt Broadstone <mbroadst at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey I'm just quickly posting how I set up my kde4 environment. This is
> in no way meant to be the official way of doing it (tm), and is likely
> not the best way to do it in a number of situations. But, at least it
> gets things building and lets me do some work :)
> 
> Here we go, pretty simple really:
> 1. Create a new user, I chose kde4, this step is bound to be disliked
> by a number of people. Personally, I found it much easier to
> completely separate it out so the somewhat broken kde4 setup wouldn't
> mess with my current kde3 setup.
>  
>    useradd -m -G <groups> <username> (I chose kde4 as a username for
> future reference in this document)
>    passwd <username>
> 
> then logout of your current user, and login to the newly created one.
> or just su...
>    su - <username>
> 
> 2. Grab the source tree. What I did was download the entire kde4
> folder into the root directory of my user, instead of picking out just
> pieces. I find this beneficial because I can just switch to that
> directory and svn everything in one fell swoop. Again, you may wish to
> do this differently.
>    
>   cd ~
>   svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/kde4
> 
> 3. Let's build qt-copy..
>   cd ~/kde4/qt-copy
>   
>   (This is more or less directly copied from the README.qt-copy, so
> for future notice RTFM heh, by the way make sure you have "byacc"
> installed. Gentoo does not have this installed by default so 'emerge
> byacc'. You're going to have to fend for yourself with other distros)
> 
>   export QTDIR=$PWD
>   export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
>   export YACC='byacc -d'
>   ./configure -qt-gif -no-exceptions -debug -fast -prefix=$QTDIR
>   make sub-src sub-tools
> 
> 4. Now we need to setup the environment variables. 
>   cd ~/kde4
>   source ./setup-env
> 
> 5. Now we're ready to tackle kdelibs. I'm assuming we are going to
> build the most basic build of kdelibs, so no special configure options
> etc.
>   cd ~/kde4/kdelibs
>   unsermake -f Makefile.cvs
>   ./configure --prefix=/home/<username>/kde
> --with-qt-copy=/home/<username>/kde4/qt-copy
>   unsermake
>   unsermake install
> 
> 5. Now we'll hit kdebase. This will, in all liklihood, not build
> completely at all. Only portions are "ported" (used VERY loosely in
> this context :) ) but, this is where we're at.
>   cd ~/kde4/kdebase
>   unsermake -f Makefile.cvs
>   ./configure --prefix=/home/<username>/kde
> --with-qt-dir=/home/<username>/kde4/qt-copy
>   unsermake
>   *pray*
> 
> Well, hope that helps some of you who might be a little stuck. Please
> feel free to post suggestions and/or changes, as I'm almost sure I
> forgot something (yes things accomplished at 3am a week ago are
> quickly forgotten)
> 
> Cheers!
> Matt
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