[Qgis-developer] plug ins- how to start

[Chang, Elizabeth]

Hi,

 

I recently started looking into building a QGIS plugin in that would
connect to PostGIS and be able to edit database entries.

 

How do I go about starting this? I want to make an external plug-in. I
started creating the development environment following
http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/qgis+grass/BuildFromSource.html and
ran into problems. I'll have to try it again and get the exact error
message but in short, when I got to installing GRASS, it said that it
couldn't find Lex. I had installed Flex by downloading the prebuilt
binary package and somehow GRASS installation couldn't find it. When I
went to reinstall Flex by building it myself, I think it said that it
couldn't find Bison which I had also installed using prebuilt binaries.
How do I get it to find Flex and Bison? BTW, I'm building this on
Windows using msys.

 

In the meantime, I ran into
http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/DevelopingPlugins?highlight=%28plug%29
which is outdated but seems to say that I don't need the entire
development environment.

 

Could someone give me any pointers on this endeavor? I'm a newbie. I
know some programming in Java but not on C++ or Python and planning to
learn what I have to learn to do this.

 

Thanks,

Elizabeth

 

 

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