From kde-devel  Wed Jul 30 13:59:07 2003
From: Wagner Sales <wsalles2003 () yahoo ! com ! br>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:59:07 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Build system questions
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Simon Perreault wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am writing my own KDE-based application and am having trouble with the 
>KDevelop-generated (and also the kapptemplate-generated) build system. I 
>tried and tried to find the answers to the following questions by myself, but 
>couldn't. Could anyone offer a pointer to some resource, or even answer the 
>questions directly? Thanks!
>
>- How should one test and include third-party libraries in the 
>autoconf/automake system? I want my configure script to answer the following 
>common questions:
>    - what is the prefix of the library? (with a default prefix)
>    - what is the directory of headers?
>    - what is the directory of shared objects?
>
>- How should one include application icons in the build system? How about 
>multiple schemes (crystal, hicolor, etc.) or multiple sizes?
>
>- How about other kind of data? How should it be included in the build system? 
>Take for example big interpolation tables for math stuff.
>
>  
>
Simon,
I was tried a lot too. But, I will suggest to you: donwload the Gideon 
(kdevelop 3 alpha 4).
In gideon you'll see an AutoMake Manager (congratulatios to the owner of 
this idea!). Using that, you can put in you project sub projects, and 
make de order of compile, link libraries, etc, without worry with 
editing files. Another type, just create a new directory in your project 
(kdevelop 2.1.x -> File Tree View -> context menu), then click in 
Project, Add Files. Select the files of your third-party library, and 
add. After that, probaly kdevelop will ask to you if you want to compile 
like a shared or static library.
The directory of header is the directory of source. In a project called 
foo, you will have foo/foo, where the source files are. Subdirs may 
necessary to a best organization of libraries. If you library have 
another flags to compile, when you'll add, add with the make files. Edit 
the Makefile.am, in this file you will encounter two lines: the init and 
end of the lines inserter automatically by kdevelop. If you have 
duplicate entries in section by kdevelop and original section of the 
makefile, remove them.
Well,  good luck...

Wagner


 
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