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Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/LFS

CMake

KDE-4 and many supporting libraries use CMake.

Install the latest version from cmake.org

Library Requirements

DBus

Install the latest version from freedesktop.org

Qt

Use Qt-Copy from KDE's SVN for TRUNK

Use 4.4.3 for 4.2 BRANCH

Use 4.4.x for 4.1 BRANCH

Use 4.3.4 for the 4.0 BRANCH.

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.

GMM

For 4.1, 4.2 & TRUNK only

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

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

KDESupport

If building individually, install in this order:

automoc

akonadi

eigen

eigen2

taglib

soprano

strigi

qimageblitz

phonon

cpptoxml

For TRUNK, use SVN:

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

You may need to add variables to the CMake command:

-DENABLE_FAM:BOOL=ON

-DENABLE_EXPAT:BOOL=ON

-DENABLE_INOTIFY:BOOL=ON

-DGAIM_LIBS:STRING=<path>/lib

-DGAMIN_LIBARIES:STRING=<path>/lib

-DGAMIN_LIBRARIES:STRING=<path>/lib

Note the bug caused by misspelling which might be fixed.

For 4.1 BRANCH you need:

Akonadi

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/akonadi/1.0

Eigen

Get the current 1.0.x release from:

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/1

Eigen2

Get the current 2.0.x release from:

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org

Phonon

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/phonon/4.2

Soprano

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/soprano/2.1

Strigi

Get the current 0.5.x release from:

http://strigi.sourceforge.net/

Or, use SVN:

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/strigi/0.5

You may need to add variables to the CMake command:

-DENABLE_FAM:BOOL=ON

-DENABLE_EXPAT:BOOL=ON

-DENABLE_INOTIFY:BOOL=ON

-DGAIM_LIBS:STRING=<path>/lib

-DGAMIN_LIBARIES:STRING=<path>/lib

-DGAMIN_LIBRARIES:STRING=<path>/lib

Note the bug caused by misspelling which might be fixed.

Automoc, QImageBlitz, & CPPtoXML

I am currently using KDESupport TRUNK for these three which do not have releases yet.

Note that you can check out an individual package in the KDESupport module from TRUNK:

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport/<package>

and build it separately without checking out all of KDESupport.

For 4.0 BRANCH you need:

Soprano

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

Strigi

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

You may need to add variables to the CMake command:

-DENABLE_FAM:BOOL=ON

-DENABLE_EXPAT:BOOL=ON

-DENABLE_INOTIFY:BOOL=ON

-DGAIM_LIBS:STRING=<path>/lib

-DGAMIN_LIBARIES:STRING=<path>/lib

-DGAMIN_LIBRARIES:STRING=<path>/lib

Note the bug caused by misspelling which might be fixed.

TagLib

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

QImageBlitz

Get qimageblitz-0.0.4 from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qimageblitz

Eigen

Get the current release from:

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/1

Other Useful Libraries

shared-mime-info

Get the current release from:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info

I found that I had to install this with the same prefix as KDE4 to eliminate missing MIME type errors.

Boost C++ Libraries

Get the current release from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586

If you install this from source, you need to make some slight modifications:

You will not have the needed "*.so" links. You will have links of the form:

libboost_<library_name>-gcc<version>-mt.so

and you need it without the GCC version:

libboost_<library_name>-gcc-mt.so

The default install directory for the Boost libraries is: "/usr/local/lib". So, what I did was to link all of these links to "/usr/lib" by drag 'n' drop and then rename the links in "/usr/lib" with KRename. It is better to have the links in "/usr/lib" because that is the first place CMake looks for them.

The default install directory for the Boost headers is:

/usr/local/include/boost-<version>/boost

and you need to make links from:

/usr/local/include/boost

and

/usr/include/boost

to there so that they will be found.

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