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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Nathan,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I will take a look into the PyQGIS side of things. I’m much more comfortable in C++ than I am in Python, but I imagine I could probably make it work for me, as long as I’m not going the plugin route, I’ll be doing a lot of database type stuff and prefer my code to run in parallel with QGIS, rather than launching a plugin every time something needs done.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>What’s required to get PyQGIS up and running on Windows 8.1? Is it just simply installing the standalone version of QGIS and Python (<a href="https://www.python.org/">https://www.python.org/</a> )? Do I have access to all the QGIS files I need in this setup? Or do I need to pull the QGIS source code from Git?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Josh Q<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Nathan Woodrow [mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 11, 2014 9:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> Joshua Quesenberry<br><b>Cc:</b> qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-developer] Compiling QGIS and C++ Application with QGIS Headers on Windows 8.1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hey Joshua,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If your plan is to build a small application using QGIS I would recommend using Python with PyQGIS. It's very easy to get up and running with that and your dev time will be much faster. Plus you don't have to compile it for every platform under the sun ;)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you are keen to try that I have a working Python PyQGIS app here: <a href="https://github.com/DMS-Aus/Roam">https://github.com/DMS-Aus/Roam</a> which include code to create a standalone exe with everything included. That is pretty full on example but I can strip it down to the most important parts if needed.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nathan<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Joshua Quesenberry <<a href="mailto:engnfrc@gmail.com" target="_blank">engnfrc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Good Morning,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I tried painfully to get QGIS compiled last night, but I’ve had no such luck. I’d like to try adding some features to the program in the future, but I’d also like to be able to build my own C++ applications that have access to the interface and can display basic map data.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’m trying to follow the instructions on the INSTALL page (<a href="http://htmlpreview.github.io/?http://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.html" target="_blank">http://htmlpreview.github.io/?http://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.html</a> )<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>My current setup is this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Windows 8.1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Visual Studio Express 2013<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>QGIS was standalone installed a month or so ago and is version 2.2.0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>QT 5.3<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>CMake<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Git (I’m using the main download at <a href="http://msysgit.github.io/" target="_blank">http://msysgit.github.io/</a> along with TortoiseGit)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Flex<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>OSGeo4W Advanced Installation with all the required packages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I tried Installing the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4, but after an hour of installing it was no more than like 1% complete, so I assume it was broken. Maybe I need the Windows SDK for Windows 8.1 and .NET Framework 4.5.1?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Can you all help me get squared away? I was installing recent version of software, but maybe I need the very specific versions that are mentioned (Visual Studio Express 2010, QT 4.x, Windows 7)?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Just as some background with where I want to go with all of this; for one I’m working on a small project in Visual Studio Express that allows me to analyze the game Scotland Yard, for two I’ve been involved with Search and Rescue for a little over a decade and we have some tools that are being developed alongside ArcGIS that over an unknown period of time I’d like to try to make available through freely available software.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Josh Q<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-developer mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>