Update INSTALL file

Create a brief introduction and pull the build options for Subsurface to
the top of the file.
Make the build instructions for the different platforms somewhat more
consistent
Mention the need for qmake-qt4 on some Linux distros

Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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Dirk Hohndel 2013-12-12 17:10:49 +01:00
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INSTALL
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Building the Qt version under Linux
-----------------------------------
Building Subsurface from Source
===============================
On Debian you need libqt4-dev, libmarble-dev, libzip-dev.
Unfortunately the marble version in Debian stable (and possibly
Ubuntu) appears broken and missing essential header files used in the
current git version of Subsurface. We hack around this right now by
including this header file but this needs to be revisited before an
actual release.
Subsurface uses a few open source libraries and frameworks to do its
job. The most important ones include libdivecomputer, Qt4, Marble
(more precisely libmarble; this is what causes the need for Qt4 as
Marble as of the time of this writing hasn't been ported to Qt5, yet),
libxml2, libxslt, libsqlite3, and libzip.
Below are instructions for building Subsurface under some popular
Linux distributions, for building Subsurface using Homebrew on a Mac,
and for cross-building Subsurface for Windows. The lack of a working
package management system for Windows makes it really painful to build
Subsurface natively under Windows, we have some hints how to do so
here as well.
Build options for Subsurface
----------------------------
The following options are recognised when passed to qmake:
-config debug Create a debug build
-config release Create a release build
The default depends on how Qt was built.
V=1 Disable the "silent" build mode
LIBDCDEVEL=1 Search for libdivecomputer in ../libdivecomputer
INCLUDEPATH+=xxx Add xxx to the include paths to the compiler
(pass the actual path, without -I)
LIBS+=xxx Add xxx to the linker flags. -l and -L options are
recognised.
The INCLUDEPATH and LIBS options are useful to tell the buildsystem
about non-standard installation paths for the dependencies (such as
Marble). They can be repeated as often as needed, or multiple
arguments can be passed on the same switch, separated by a space. For
example:
qmake LIBS+="-L$HOME/marble/lib -L$HOME/libdivecomputer/lib" \
INCLUDEPATH+="$HOME/marble/include $HOME/libdivecomputer/include"
Building Subsurface 4 under Linux
---------------------------------
On Fedora you need qt-devel, marble-devel, libzip-devel,
libxml2-devel, libxslt-devel, libsqlite3x-devel, libudev-devel. If you are going
to compile libdivecomputer, you need to libusb-devel too.
to compile libdivecomputer, you need libusb-devel, too.
On Debian the package names are different; try libxml2-dev,
On Debian style distributions you can install the required development
packages by running
$ apt-get builddep subsurface
FIXME FIXME FIXME - check bug #199 for correct command
If you want to install the required packages individually instead you
need libqt4-dev, libmarble-dev, libzip-dev, libxml2-dev,
libsqlite3-dev, libxslt1-dev, libzip-dev (and libusb-1.0-0-dev if
you're going to compile libdivecomputer).
Unfortunately the marble version in Debian stable (and possibly
Ubuntu) appears to be missing essential header files used in
Subsurface. We hack around this right now by including this header
file but that of course causes potential version conflicts.
To compile libdivecomputer:
$ git clone git://git.libdivecomputer.org/libdivecomputer
$ cd libdivecomputer
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To compile Subsurface:
$ git clone git://subsurface.hohndel.org/subsurface.git
$ cd subsurface
$ qmake
$ qmake # qmake-qt4 on some flavors of Linux
$ make
$ sudo make install [optionally, add: prefix=/usr/local]
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4) Install Marble
$ mkdir -p ~/src/marble/build
$ git clone -b KDE/4.11 git://anongit.kde.org/marble ~/src/marble/sources
$ git clone -b 4.11.2 git://anongit.kde.org/marble ~/src/marble/sources
$ cd ~/src/marble/build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DQTONLY=TRUE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ../sources
- or -
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----------------------------------------------
Subsurface builds nicely with MinGW - the official builds are done as
cross builds under Linux (currently on Fedora 17). A shell script to do
cross builds under Linux (currently on Fedora 19). A shell script to do
that (plus the .nsi file to create the installer with makensis) are
included in the packaging/Windows directory.
included in the packaging/windows directory.
The best way to get libdivecomputer to build appears to be
$ git clone git://git.libdivecomputer.org/libdivecomputer
$ cd libdivecomputer
$ mkdir -p ~/src
$ git clone git://git.libdivecomputer.org/libdivecomputer ~/src/libdivecomputer
$ cd ~/src/libdivecomputer
$ git checkout release-0.4
$ mingw32-configure --disable-shared
$ mingw32-make
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To compile Subsurface, use:
$ git clone git://subsurface.hohndel.org/subsurface.git
$ cd subsurface
$ mkdir -p ~/src/subsurface
$ git clone git://subsurface.hohndel.org/subsurface.git ~/src/subsurface
$ cd ~/src/subsurface
$ packaging/windows/mingw-make.sh
$ packaging/windows/mingw-make.sh install
$ packaging/windows/mingw-make.sh installer
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$ make
$ make install
$ make installer
Build options
-------------
The following options are recognised when passed to qmake:
-config debug Create a debug build
-config release Create a release build
The default depends on how Qt was built.
V=1 Disable the "silent" build mode
LIBDCDEVEL=1 Search for libdivecomputer in ../libdivecomputer
INCLUDEPATH+=xxx Add xxx to the include paths to the compiler
(pass the actual path, without -I)
LIBS+=xxx Add xxx to the linker flags. -l and -L options are
recognised.
The INCLUDEPATH and LIBS options are useful to tell the buildsystem
about non-standard installation paths for the dependencies (such as
Marble). They can be repeated as often as needed, or multiple
arguments can be passed on the same switch, separated by a space. For
example:
qmake LIBS+="-L$HOME/marble/lib -L$HOME/libdivecomputer/lib" \
INCLUDEPATH+="$HOME/marble/include $HOME/libdivecomputer/include"