[Qgis-developer] Compiling QGIS on Debian Etch (testing-release)
Tim Sutton
tim at linfiniti.com
Mon Apr 10 20:07:49 EDT 2006
Hi Peter
Many thanks for this. I have added your notes to the QGIS website:
http://qgis.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=86
After your email last week I spent some time cleaning up the plugin
builder on 0.8 so that it actually works and makes a cleaner plugin
starting point. You can easily create your plugin starting point by
doing :
cd src/plugins
./plugin_builder.pl
Note you must run the plugin builder from that dir. I have also
updated the README with some useful (hopefully) info to get you
started - the README will be in your generated plugin dir after
running the above mentioned script, and also appears in teh dialog
that pops up when you run the default generated plugin from in QGIS.
I hope to make a new tutorial to replace the out of date one on the
wiki over the next week or two, so stand by for that. Pre 0.8 we had a
separate svn (cvs in those days) module for contributed plugins that
built outside the qgis source tree with their own autogen etc make
system. I plan to get that updated to create 0.8 friendly plugins and
will let you know when that is done. If you are planning to build a
publicly available plugin, there is the option of hosting your plugin
in the 'external' plugins subversion directory at some point in the
future.
Good luck with your development efforts,
Regards
Tim
On 4/10/06, Peter Ersts <ersts at amnh.org> wrote:
> Thank you for the helpful responses to my initial questions regarding
> plugin development.
>
> Before diving into trying to develop a plugin, I thought I would try to
> download and compile the most recent version of QGIS. I had some initial
> trouble compiling QGIS on an older Debian box because of some GDAL
> library conflicts with OpenEV. It was just a simple matter of modifying
> the makefiles but I was unable to find a way to resolve the conflict
> from the initial step using autogen.sh, so I chose to try a fresh
> install of Debian on another box. Additionally, libgeos-dev was
> initially missing and not explicitly mentioned in any of the build
> instructions for Linux, though references to GEOS are in the OSX and
> Windows build instructions. Once everything was in place the compilation
> went beautifully and with out a hitch.
>
> So I thought I would share the steps I took for compiling QGIS on a
> fresh install of Debian Etch, testing release, just using packages and
> libraries downloaded and installed with apt-get.
>
> Great job on the newest version!
>
> -pete
>
>
> =========
>
> 1) Download the GUI installer iso from
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUI and burn to CD. **For this
> install I used the mini.ios (Intelx86) image which is only 9.2 megabytes.
>
> 2) Boot from the CD.
>
> 3) Follow the instructions for installing the Debian Etch (testing
> release) desktop environment and standard system, which are the default
> components to be installed. **This is a network install and I would not
> recommend it for people with low bandwidth.
>
> 4) Login as a normal user and open a Terminal window.
>
> 5) In the Terminal window, become the superuser by typing:
> su root
>
> 6) Add your normal user to the sudoers list using:
> visudo
>
> 7) Exit from superuser account.
>
> 8) Install the necessary packages using the following commands;
> sudo apt-get install subversion automake1.9 libtool
> libsqlite3-dev libgsl0-dev
> sudo apt-get install postgresql
> sudo apt-get install grass libgrass libgrass-dev libgeos-dev
> sudo apt-get install gdal-bin libgdal1-1.3.1-dev
> sudo apt-get install qt4-designer qt4-dev-tools
>
> 9) Update the system database
> sudo updatedb
>
> 10) Open a new Terminal window.
>
> 11) In the new terminal window, make a development directory for your
> normal user:
> mkdir devel
>
> 12) Enter the development directory and download the most recent
> version of QGIS
> cd devel
> svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/trunk/qgis qgis-unstable
>
> 13) Enter the source directory and run autgen.sh.
> cd qgis-unstable
> ./autogen.sh --with-qtdir=/usr/share/qt4 --with-grass=/usr/lib/grass
>
> 14) If all of the packages are found simply type make to start compiling
> QGIS
> ==========================================
> qgis 0.8.0
> ------------------------------------------
> GDAL/OGR : yes (Version 1.3.1)
> GEOS :yes (Version 2.1.4)
> PostgreSQL : yes (Version 8.1.0)
> GRASS : yes
> SPIT : yes
> Georeferencer : yes
> GPS/GPX : yes
> PROJ4 : yes
> SQLITE3 : yes
> Python : no
>
> Debug : no
> Plugin dir : ${exec_prefix}/lib/qgis
>
> The binary will be installed in /usr/bin
>
> The build is using Qt in /usr/share/qt4
> Linking with Qt using -lQtCore -lQt3Support -lQtGui -lQtNetwork -lQtSvg
> -lQtCore -lQt3Support -lQtGui -lQtNetwork -lQtXml -lQtSvg -lQtTest
> -lQtDesigner
> ------------------------------------------
> Configure finished, type 'make' to build.
> pete at mwavi:~/devel/Qgis/qgis-unstable$
>
> 15) Once the compilation is complete, install QGIS
> sudo make install
>
> 16) This is it!
>
> **Note additional configuration may be necessary to get PostgreSQL and
> other system component running properly and securely. Additional
> packages may need to be installed if you choose to develop plugins using
> KDevelop or anyother IDE.
>
>
> --
> ====================================
> Peter J. Ersts, Project Specialist
> American Museum of Natural History
> Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
> Central Park West at 79th Street
> New York, New York 10024
> Tel: (212)-496-3488 or (212)-769-5742
> Fax: (212)-313-7295 or (212)-769-5292
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>
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