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ravas

build from source instructions

I think a priority for this project is to refine and localize the build from source instructions.

We need them updated for Qt 5.

I recommend removing them from the website and focus on wiki articles the community can edit.
The website only makes sense as a portal to me.

I see three cases, and possibly three different articles:

- users that want to build from source, simply to use LibreCAD
- developers / testers that want to build from source using Qt Creator
- developers that want to build from source to create packages / installers

I'm inclined toward using the GitHub wiki for this, and other developer related articles.

R. van Twisk

Re: build from source instructions

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Ravas,

I am just jumping in here so excuse me if I missed something

Last year I could compile fine with Qt5, this was on OSX with clang, not using macports.

On Mar 14, 2016, at 10:12 PM, ravas [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I think a priority for this project is to refine and localize the build from source instructions.

We need them updated for Qt 5.

I recommend removing them from the website and focus on wiki articles the community can edit.
The website only makes sense as a portal to me.

I see three cases, and possibly three different articles:

- users that want to build from source, simply to use LibreCAD
- developers / testers that want to build from source using Qt Creator
- developers that want to build from source to create packages / installers

I'm inclined toward using the GitHub wiki for this, and other developer related articles.

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ravas

Re: build from source instructions

I'm not the one having problems.

The major problem at the moment is for Ubuntu users.
The stable ppa is only at 2.0.8 which has several nasty bugs we have since fixed.
The daily ppa unfortunately is a version of 2.1.0 alpha that has bugs that only existed for one day... >_<

So we need to instruct Ubuntu users to build from source until someone else starts producing Ubuntu packages.

People are having problems with our current instructions;
and none of the instructions are for Qt 5.

http://forum.librecad.org/Rounding-of-values-tp5713077p5713158.html
http://forum.librecad.org/Error-when-install-from-source-on-linux-td5713298.html
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/issues/670

ravas

Re: build from source instructions

One problem with the build instructions on the website is that they don't contain '-r' for qmake.
This was pointed out by dxli
http://forum.librecad.org/Error-when-install-from-source-on-linux-td5713298.html#a5713308

http://librecad.org/cms/home/from-source/linux.html

dxli

Re: build from source instructions

I agree the information on http://librecad.org/cms/home/from-source/linux.html is simply outdated.

wiki.librecad.org contains more updated, but still needs some care.

I feel we should keep upgrading wiki.librecad.org, and keep a concise version of INSTALL in source code.

ravas wrote

One problem with the build instructions on the website is that they don't contain '-r' for qmake.
This was pointed out by dxli
http://forum.librecad.org/Error-when-install-from-source-on-linux-td5713298.html#a5713308

http://librecad.org/cms/home/from-source/linux.html

ravas

Re: build from source instructions

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/wiki/Build-from-source (from the old readme)
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/wiki/Compile-HOWTO
http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/Build_from_source
http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/Installation

If it won't be updated it needs to be hidden or removed.
http://librecad.org/cms/home/from-source/linux.html