Posted by
tin-pot on
Dec 29, 2011; 7:45pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Hello-World-One-more-user-developer-volunteer-tp5108505.html
Hello everybody,
first of all: a big THANK YOU for the great work you all
have done to get LibreCAD this far!
How did I came here? I remembered the other day that there
has been this "QCad" project (I had heard about it in the
old days when trolltech was trolltech and Nokia was Nokia
...;-). So I gave it a try and was able to build the
"Community Edition" from source, but soon I got somewhat
frustrated about how far the published sources are -
probably - behind what Ribbonsoft is dashing out as a
commercial product.
Then I stumbled over the LibreCAD project and was pretty
impressed by it.
For a start I have managed to complete a build from the
current (as of today) sources - alas, with a glitch: I use
Visual Studio .NET 2003 on Windows, and Qt Version 3.4.1 for
this. (Why that? I have nothing against the gnu toolchain
and QtCreator, but VS is the IDE I know best and use most -
I simply didn't want to fill my harddrive and my brain with
just another IDE.) So far everything looks fine.
I have cloned a Git repository to accomodate my changes at
http://github.com/tin-pot/LibreCADIf anyone is interested in the details, I would post a HOWTO
description about it somewhere - would
http://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/wiki/Compile-HOWTObe an appropriate place?
Some words about me: I'm based in Germany and have been
working as a developer in a small (CAD/CAM-related) software
business for some years now. Areas in which I would hope to
be helpful in include:
- General geometric computation
- NURBS
- Localization (preferably in german, but with the helping
eye of a native speaker also in english)
- IGES
- General CAD/CAM stuff.
My everyday environment (at home) is Windows XP SP3 (32
bit), VS .NET 2003; occasionally FreeBSD 8.2 (x86, 32 bit), Mac
OS X 10.4 (PPC), Mac OS X 10.5 (x86).
But for the time being I'll dig deeper in the code, and Git
is also new for me (coming from SVN).
Cheers Martin