C++ programming with KDevelop

The following shows how I am trying to setup KDevelop to complile the mjbWorld program.

I am using KDevelop 3.2.0 and Qt 3.3.4 (Using KDE 3.4.0 Level "b" as installed by SUSE9.3). I have put information about how I installed SUSE on this page. If your distribution does not include KDevelop it can be downloaded from here.

First start KDevelop (It is under start -> Development -> Integrated Environment -> KDevelop KDE/C++)

Then click on New Project under the project menu as follows:

I want to setup as a QMake project but there does not seem to be an empty QMake project option so I chose QMake project -> Application with the idea of removing the application generated and replacing this with the mjbWorld program. I needed to click on the "Show all project templates" box to show this option.

Then enter information about the project: click Next.

I want to be able to link to the CVS repositary at Sourceforge (which is at cvs.sf.net/cvsroot/mjbworld). The following screen does not make it very clear about how to set this up, so I have just set it up as follows for now. In Eclipse connection type: extssh seems to work very well, I can't get the other modes to work, but KDevelop/Cervisia does not seem to have this option. click Next.

I left the Copyright template as the default since I will be reading in the files from an external source anyway. click Next.

Same for .cpp files: click Next.

This has now setup a simple application:

However the aim is to use this for the mjbWorld program so we need to remove the application generated as follows:

When this is downloaded unzip it and move the mjbModel and mjbWorld directories into the project directory (in this case kdevelop/mjbworld).

Each of these directories contains the .h and .cpp files and also a .pro (qmake project file). These qmake project files are shown here:

Note: I found a bug in mjbmodel.pro, the uppercase L and lowercase l in directionalLightBean were reversed so directionaLlightBean needed to be changed to directionalLightBean.

Back in KDevelop we can now add the mjbModel and mjbWorld subprojects, under the QMake Manager tab right click on Subproject and click on the 'Add Subproject' tab. Do this to add both the mjbWorld and mjbModel subprojects:

It will automatically set mjbModel as a library and mjbWorld as an application because mjbWorld contains the 'main' entry point for the program.

Now we have all the files installed we need to run qmake to generate the makefile for both subprojects. To do this right click on each subproject and click on 'Run qmake':

I checked that QTDIR and LD_LIBRARY_PATH were set up correctly and it seemed to be OK?

but it did not make any difference so I ran qmake from the command line (can anyone explain why it did not work from within KDevelop ?):

error, as shown here, this is because you are using version of gcc/g++ using a version before gcc-3.4.0 which is the first version which supports precompiled headers, if this is the case you need to do the following:

The compiler errors are all now warnings but there seem to be some linker errors:

C++ programming with KDevelop

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