Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Qt3D

Timestamp:

Aug 15, 2015, 7:17:35 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

FrederikHeber

Comment:

explained how to create the package

Qt3D

@@ -1 @@
-=== Qt3D ===
+== Qt3D ==
 
-Basically, this page is about the debian package that I built from the [http://www.github.com/ GitHub] sources, compatible with Qt 4.8.1.
+Basically, this page is about the debian package that I built from the [http://www.github.com/ GitHub] sources, compatible with Qt 4.8.1. If you want to just download the package, skip the whole stuff and jump [#download here].
 
 However, let me first dwell here a bit on the [http://github.com/qtproject/qt3d Qt3D] module of the [http://www.qt.io Qt] environment.
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 This is all nice and shiny cause Qt3D seemed very stable and well-working. However, it never (for like 4 years up till now) integrated into the full Qt environment. I don't know why but even with Qt5.5. it is still a "tech preview". However, to me, this was the sign, that Qt3D is becoming final and it is worthwhile to invest some time into making molecuilder into a debian package including the GUI.
 
-==== Making a debian package ====
+=== Making a debian package ===
+
+First of all, I refer to branch "qt4" that was once available on gitorious.org. The commit hash of the HEAD is fdad0d7f39dfbc883372628fcc58c1194ab0b782.
+
+Then, I had to make the following changes (see patch file in attachments):
+ * I removed libqt4-declarative from the ..Depends in debian/control
+ * I added lots of folders and files to install-desktops target in debian/rules
+
+With these changes (already contained in the archive file found in the attachments) you can build the packages as follows,
+{{{
+debuild -us -uc
+}}}
+Note that adding something like "-j4" will speed up compilations. But it doesn't take too long anyway (compared to MoleCuilder).
+
+Note that the dependencies should be fulfilled beforehand. I compiled the packages in the attachments on a virtual machine with a freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04.5 with minimum requirements.
+
+Note finally that I am not in any way affiliated with digia (the company owning Qt) and all my modifications are covered by the LGPL license (go that from wikipedia.org). The only reason I make Qt3D available as debian package is for you to be able to use molecuilder with the GUI.
+
+=== What you need ===
+
+[=#download Downloading] the package: Just pick '''libqt4-3d_1.0-tp2_amd64.deb''' and install as
+{{{
+sudo dpkg -i libqt4-3d_1.0-tp2_amd64.deb
+}}}
+
+The other packages then do the following:
+ * '''libqt4-3d-dbg_1.0-tp2_amd64.deb''' contains debugging symbols for the Qt3D library. In case molecuildergui crashes and you want to take a look yourself, download and install.
+ * '''libqt4-3d-dev_1.0-tp2_amd64.deb''' contains the header files required if you want to build the molecuilder debian package yourself.
+ * '''libqt4-3d-examples_1.0-tp2_amd64.deb''' contains the examples from the Qt3D package, e.g. ''teapot''