[Mikehingley]

Hi there- Just installed my first Linux partition last week - I downloaded the ISO's for Mandrake, having tried (and given up) trying to download SUSE.

Anyway, after a spot of messing around I noticed the QT Designer, and promptly started messing around in the development environment.

I have now decided that I want to do a project using Linux and QT, but I am having difficulties - I warn you, you may have to speak slowly - I'm a Windows user.

Anyway I designed my interface, and developed the code for it, and everything seemed fine, however I needed to compile - I wanted to make some changs to the main.cpp file that is generated automaically to mess with the form borders.

When i try to compile bash reports that qmake aint there. I tried downloading the latest tars from trolltech, but I am totally stumped with what to do with them.

So basically I'm looking for some guidance as to :

1. why I can't compile, and how I can fix it (either by adding packages from the Mandrake dist cd's, or from the tar files from trolltech)

So far, I've really enjoyed the Mandrake experience - i love that i can just click on a rpm file and say "install", and it does. nice. Just feelin a little uncomfortable about the recompiling aspect of the OS.

Mike H - Mandrake Linux Newbie

 

[gotissues68]

If you can paste the last lines preceeding the error where gcc bails out and barfs that'll be helpful Also it might not be that qmake isn't installed but rather its just not in your path.

To determine your path use the following:

#>echo $PATH

see if qmake is in your path

#>which qmake

if it reports its not found or not in your path see if you can locate it manually.

#>locate qmake

found, great edit your path accordingly

Not found, if you get a slocate error as root do the following

#>updatedb

rinse and retry

You can also use find to locate the file but it may take longer

#>find / -name qmake

Found? Great edit your path.
Not found?

You may need the qt-dev packages from the Mandrake CD or you can compile from source ... To compile a generic package from source *note that you should always read the included "install or readme" file to make sure the install isn't different.

gunzip <filname.gz>
tar -xf <filename.tar>
cd <filename dir>

1../configure
2.make
3.make install
4. You're done and should be set!

Hope this helps.

Drew

 

[Mikehingley]

I have tried installing the source from QT dircectly - I managed to un tar it, but the make command returns error, as does the make install.

I shal attempt to capture these and post them tonight

 

[gotissues68]

Did you run configure before make or make install?