AW: [Qgis-developer] Some concerns about QGIS on OS X, part 1

[Hugentobler Marco]

Hi

I noticed that in the manual, there is a missing note on how to invoke qmake with the .pro file ('qmake -o Makefile pointconverter.pro', then 'make'). That should work also on Mac and replace the complicated script of Mac Programmer.

The example originally comes from a workshop (FOSSGIS 2006) but I updated the plugin to work together with 1.0 sources. In the workshop, I used qmake because it was the intention to make everything as simple as possible (only 2h time for the workshop). In the manual it would also be possible to use cmake or to add a note on how to make CMakeList.txt.

Regards,
Marco


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Von: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org im Auftrag von Tim Sutton
Gesendet: Fr 13.02.2009 06:35
An: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Mac Programmer
Betreff: Re: [Qgis-developer] Some concerns about QGIS on OS X, part 1
 
Hi

On Sunday 08 February 2009 03:16:59 Mac Programmer wrote:
> Out of curiosity, has anyone actually tried the C++ examples in the
> 1.0 user guide, particularly on a Mac? I'm finding them pretty rough
> sledding.
>
> Chapter 14, C++ plugin example:
>
> The SVN sources for this example looked pretty old (2006), so I just
> copied and pasted step 1 into .pro, .h and .cpp files, then modified
> the .pro file as best I could figure for my system. Then what? Well,
> it doesn't say. After some googling, I tried running qmake and then
> make - nothing happened. 

Hmm this example is indeed out of date since we have moved to using CMake for 
all build tasks and this plugin example does not yet reflect this. I have added 
a note in the manual sources that this section needs updating. For now I 
suggest using the plugin builder script to generate a cmakelists.txt if you 
want to build your plugin within the source tree, 

If you are looking for an example of a QGIS plugin that is built outside of 
the QGIS source tree I can suggest you take a look at Peter Erst's 'EVIS' 
plugin which I believe builds under OS X too:

svn co https://svn.biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/public/evis/trunk/evis



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