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@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ Building Subsurface from Source =============================== -Subsurface uses a few open source libraries and frameworks to do its +Subsurface uses quite a few open source libraries and frameworks to do its job. The most important ones include libdivecomputer, Qt, Marble (more precisely libmarblewidget), libxml2, libxslt, libsqlite3, libzip, -and libgit2. +libgrantlee5 and libgit2. Below are instructions for building Subsurface under some popular Linux distributions, for building Subsurface using Homebrew on a Mac, @@ -17,14 +17,12 @@ Ubuntu/Debian/LinuxMint, and openSUSE/Fedora) are built using our own custom "flavors" of libdivecomputer and libmarblewidget. You can get these from -git://git.subsurface-divelog.org/marble (in the Subsurface-4.4 branch) -git://git.subsurface-divelog.org/libdc (in the Subsurface-4.4 branch) +git://git.subsurface-divelog.org/marble (in the Subsurface-branch branch) +git://git.subsurface-divelog.org/libdc (in the Subsurface-branch branch) -Both of these repositories also have a Subsurface-branch branch. That -branch is intended for developers trying to track our development here. -It won't have a pretty history and will include ugly merges, but it should -always allow a fast forward pull that tracks what we believe developers -should build again. +Those branches won't have a pretty history and will include ugly merges, +but they should always allow a fast forward pull that tracks what we believe +developers should build against. In contrast to that both repositories also have Subsurface-clean branches. These should allow distros to see which patches we have applied on top of @@ -40,10 +38,14 @@ developers who try to keep them updated frequently, and anyone packaging Subsurface or trying to understand what we have done relative to their respective upstreams. -Also, all of the prebuilt binaries are now Qt5 based and Qt5 is considered -the stable and supported framework to use for building Subsurface. As of -Subsurface 4.5 we are switching our build system to cmake. qmake based -builds are no longer supported. +At this point Qt5 is required, Qt5.4 or newer is recommended and on the +Mac, in order to get native Bluetooth support, Qt5.5 is necessary. + +Similarly, in order for our cloud storage to be fully functional you need +libgit2 0.23 or newer. + +Finally, as of Subsurface 4.5 we have switched our build system to cmake. +qmake based builds are no longer supported. Build options for Subsurface ---------------------------- @@ -58,8 +60,16 @@ verbose mode by calling make VERBOSE=1 -Building Subsurface 4 under Linux ---------------------------------- +Many more variables are support, the easiest way to interact with them is +to call + + ccmake . + +in your build directory. + + +Building Subsurface 4.5 under Linux +----------------------------------- On Fedora you need @@ -90,7 +100,7 @@ sudo apt-get install git g++ make autoconf libtool cmake pkg-config \ qt5-default qt5-qmake qtchooser qttools5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev \ libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5qml5 libqt5quick5 libqt5declarative5 \ qtscript5-dev libssh2-1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev qttools5-dev \ - qtconnectivity5-dev libgrantlee-dev + qtconnectivity5-dev On PCLinuxOS you appear to need the following packages |