[cad-linux] Re: Giving back: instructions for building QCAD on Fedora 2...

BTW: QCAD v2 looks pretty spiffy.  I tried QCAD 1.? about a year ago and
was less than enthused with it.  It appears that many improvements have
been made to QCAD v2 by someone with some drafting experience.  

disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the makers of QCAD nor any other
drafting package. 

Kim Lux



On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 13:38, Kim Lux wrote:
> Hi people.  There was an email to the group a while ago about building
> QCAD from source (community version) and I just did it, so I thought I'd
> share.  Here are the steps that I took:
> 
> a) download the QCAD v2 source from http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html
> 
> b) Untar it  Find the README file (with the build instructions) and
> print them out.  
> 
> c) As per said instructions, find where qt and qt-devel are located.  
> The commands for doing so are "rpm -q qt -i"  and " rpm -q qt-devel
> -i".  
> 
> My Fedora 2 computer did NOT have qt-devel installed, so I downloaded
> the RPM from a Fedora mirror (see www.fedoranews.org) in the following
> path: /fedora/core/2/i386/os/fedora/RPMs.  To install qt-devel, I use
> "rpm -i qt-devel*rpm", but I am sure you all know that. 
> 
> d) Once qt-devel is installed, I set up the environment vars as per the
> README.  
> 
>       export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.3   
> 
> The README says /opt/qt, but this is wrong for my machine.
> 
>       export QMAKESPEC=$QTDIR/mkspecs/linux-g++
> 
>       export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin
> 
> e) check all your vars and check that qmake works:
> 
>       echo $QTDIR
>       echo $QMAKESPEC
>       qmake -v
> 
> f) Run the script for building QCAD:
>       cd scripts
>       sh ./build_qcad.sh
> 
> This resulted in a running version of QCAD for me.  
> 
> 
-- 
Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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