Difference between revisions of "Development/Languages"

Revision as of 21:38, 29 June 2011

KDE supports several programming languages for KDE 4 development.

Stable and Mature

Support for these languages is mature, fully maintained and suitable for application development:

In Development

Support for these languages is still in development:

PHP
Lua
KBasic - BASIC language similar to VB

Bindings Technologies and Embedding

Smoke - Provides infrastructure which is used for creating bindings for multiple languages such as Ruby, C# and PHP.

Kross - Provides embedded scripting for C++ applications. Multiple languages such as Python, Ruby, JavaScript, QtScript, Falcon and Java are supported.

QtScript - The QtScript binding generator.

SIP - Used to generate the bindings for Python.

Support for Qt3 / KDE3

Building current git master

It is recommended to have the following in ~/.gitconfig: [url "git://anongit.kde.org/"]


   insteadOf = kde:

[url "ssh://git@git.kde.org/"]

   pushInsteadOf = kde:

to pull from the anongit servers, but push to the main git server.

Clone the repositories with

git clone kde:smokegen
git clone kde:smokeqt
git clone kde:smokekde
git clone kde:qtruby
git clone kde:korundum
git clone kde:qyoto
git clone kde:kimono
git clone kde:perlqt
git clone kde:perlkde
git clone kde:kross-interpreters
</code>
 
Building happens as usual with
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">cmake <src-dir> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
make install</code>
 
Smokegen has to be built first, then smokeqt and smokekde. After that you can then build the various language bindings. Note that the KDE bindings part always depends on the Qt part - so you have to build this one first.
 
kross-interpreters contains the language plugins for kross. They do not depend on any of the above.
 
__NOTOC__

@@ Line 47: / Line 47: @@
 Clone the repositories with
-<code bash>git clone kde:smokegen
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">git clone kde:smokegen
 git clone kde:smokeqt
 git clone kde:smokekde
@@ Line 60: / Line 60: @@
 Building happens as usual with
-<code bash>cmake <src-dir> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">cmake <src-dir> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
 make
 make install</code>