[Qgis-developer] Qt build for QGIS source

[William Kyngesburye]

It's all in the INSTALL document in the QGIS source.

On Jun 4, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Mars Sjoden wrote:

> Thanks, 
> 
> Tried the SDK download, but throws some errors when building some of the dependancies (pyqt I think). 
> Simply installing the libs seems to work so far, …must install to allow for dynamic libs?
> 
> I need to remember to write down this process for myself!
> 
> Sent from the  MarsPhone
> 
> On 2011-06-04, at 11:07 AM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> 
>> Don't compile Qt from source, just download the framework installer.  They also have debug libs as a separate download (it adds to the frameworks).  For most purposes the "Qt Libraries" downloads are enough, but if you need the dev tools, like Qt Designer and the Qt IDE you need the larger Qt SDK.
>> 
>> Looks like they changed their download page layout a bit - the SDK/Library section used to be side by side, now they're sequential and you need to scroll down to find the Library links.
>> 
>> On Jun 4, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Mars Sjoden wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am on my wife's computer (Snow Leopard) and am trying to remember if I need to build Qt libraries as a static or dynamic library?
>>> 
>>> I seem to remember dynamic is preferred for dependancies but also seem to remember that the auto-download/build installer for Qt for Mac builds the libraries as static?
>>> 
>>> What is the smoothest download for Qt (and debugging) that I should be using for Mac?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> a non-developer hack.
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>> 
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>> 
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>> 
>> 

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