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Getting Started/Build/KDE4/LFS

Building KDE4 From Source (LFS or to build from sources)

Tutorial Series	Getting Started
Prerequisites	Build KDE 4
What's Next	Build KDE 4
Further Reading	kdesvn-build: The KDE From Subversion Build Tool Increased Productivity in KDE4 with Scripts Introduction to CMake

1 CMake
2 Library Requirements
3 Other Useful Libraries

[edit] CMake

KDE-4 and many supporting libraries use CMake.

Install the latest version from cmake.org

[edit] Library Requirements

[edit] DBus

Install the latest version from freedesktop.org

[edit] Qt

Use 4.3.3 for the 4.0 BRANCH.

USE 4.4.0Beta or Qt-Copy from KDE's SVN for TRUNK

[edit] QCA-2.0.0 (crypto add on for Qt)

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/tags/qca/2.0.0

Do not use the one in KDESupport.

[edit] GMM

For TRUNK only

If you don't have Getfem++ installed, get the current release of GMM from:

http://home.gna.org/getfem/download.html

[edit] KIPI

For TRUNK only

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/

[edit] KDESupport

[edit] For TRUNK, use SVN:

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport

[edit] For 4.0 BRANCH you need:

[edit] Soprano

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/soprano/2.0

To build:

 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<kde_branch_dir> -DENABLE_FAM:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_EXPAT:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_INOTIFY:BOOL=ON

Use whatever you are using for <kde_branch_dir>

Make sure that CMake finds GAIM on your system. If it doesn't find it, add:

 -DGAIM_LIBS:STRING=<gaim_libs_dir>

Use your systems GAIM libs directory.

You can also use:

 ccmake ..

to resolve any dependency issues.

After correct configuration:

 make install

[edit] Strigi

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/tags/strigi/strigi/0.5.8

[edit] TagLib

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/taglib/1.5/taglib

[edit] QImageBlitz

Get qimageblitz-0.0.4 from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qimageblitz

[edit] Eigen

Get the current release from:

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/

[edit] Other Useful Libraries

To be added

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