[Qgis-developer] Difficulties with the compilation of the plugin Globe

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 11/09/2016 10:39 AM, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> On 2016-11-09 10:14, Elsa Darroman wrote:
>> We worked on debian 8.4 with Qgis 2.14.8 (latest version of 2.14) and
>> Qt 4.8.
>>
>> One of the instructions is to use and compile the plugin Globe to open
>> the
>> tracks in 3D. The problem is the compilation of the plugin Globe. We
>> isolated it, tried to resolve all the errors the isolation of the plugin
>> and when we succeeded the plugin compiled but not in a proper way: the
>> file of library (.so) is copied with the others in /usr/lib/qgis/plugins
>> but the plugin is not find by QGIS.
>>
>> Have you any ideas to help us ?
> 
> The qgis package in jessie-backports should have the globe plugin
> enabled already, so you don't need to compile it.
> 
> It may be that the recent updates disabled it again as the globe plugin
> doesn't support the osgearth version in testing/unstable.

For more details, have a look at this discussion which provides some
insights and an experimental patch:

http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Future-of-the-Globe-plugin-in-QGIS-3-with-Qt5-td5288268.html

Regards
Matthias