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Thank you for trying TSPSG. This document will guide you through the steps necessary to compile and run TSPSG.
To be able compile TSPSG you need to have Qt libraries[1]. The minimum supported version of Qt is 4.5.0. The recommended version is 4.6.x or higher.
This guide assumes that you already have Qt libraries and all necessary prerequisites installed.
Also, the following assumptions are made:
lrelease and qmake are avilable in $PATH.C:\Qt\.TSPSG is oficially supported and tested on the following platforms:
To be able ot build TSPSG you need to have the following Qt modules: QtCore, QtGui and QtSvg. The first two are required, the last one is optional. To get support for additional image formats (i.e., JPEG and TIFF) you'll additionally need corresponding Qt imageformats plugins.
If you want to build TSPSG without SVG support add nosvg to qmake CONFIG parameter, so that qmake command will typically be:
qmake CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=nosvg
This way you will not depend on QtSvg module but will not be able to export solution graph in SVG format.
TSPSG uses qmake PREFIX parameter to determine installation path for make install command. If you don't specify it when running qmake, it will be assigned the default value depending on the platform:
| Platform | Default PREFIX value |
|---|---|
| Linux/UNIX/BSD | /usr |
| Windows | %PROGRAMFILES% environment variable (usually, it is C:\Program Files) |
| Windows CE/Mobile | \Program Files |
| Symbian | <ignored> |
By default, TSPSG uses precompiled header when being built. If you experience problems with it you may add CONFIG+=nopch parameter to qmake to disable the generation and use of the precompiled header.
On most platforms the general building and installation procedure is:
lrelease to generate binary translation files (.qm) from the source (.ts).qmake with CONFIG+=release parameter to generate makefiles.make, nmake, mingw32-make) to build TSPSG.install parameter.lrelease before qmake, or qmake will not "pick up" the translations when generating installation rules.Open a shell, navigate to the directory where you have TSPSG source downloaded and type
tar xvjf tspsg-<VERSION>-src.tar.bz2 cd tspsg-<VERSION>-src
where <VERSION> is the version of TSPSG you downloaded. Now run
lrelease tspsg.pro qmake tspsg.pro make
In some cases you may need to type
qmake tspsg.pro CONFIG+=release
If make step finished without errors you can install TSPSG by running
sudo make install
or
su make install
depending on your distribution.
The executable goes to <PREFIX>/bin; COPYING, ChangeLog.txt, README.txt and INSTALL.txt go to <PREFIX>/share/doc/TSPSG-<VERSION>.
TSPSG will be installed to <PREFIX>\TSPSG folder.
Unpack the downloaded source code of TSPSG with your favourite compression software. Now launch the Qt Command Prompt from the Start Menu, navigate to the directory where you unpacked the source and run
lrelease tspsg.pro qmake tspsg.pro CONFIG+=release mingw32-make
windres.exe. If you've run into this issue, please, read the section WINDRES.EXE CRASH.If make step finished without errors you can install TSPSG by running
mingw32-make install
Unpack the downloaded source code of TSPSG with your favourite compression software. Now launch the Visual Studio Command Prompt from the Start Menu, navigate to the directory where you unpacked the source and run
C:\Qt\bin\lrelease tspsg.pro C:\Qt\bin\qmake tspsg.pro CONFIG+=release nmake
If make step finished without errors you can install TSPSG by running
nmake install
Unpack the downloaded source code of TSPSG with your favourite compression software. Now launch the Visual Studio Command Prompt from the Start Menu and run
set PATH=C:\Qt\bin;\%PATH\% setcepaths wincewm50pocket-msvc2008
Now navigate to the directory where you unpacked the source and run
lrelease tspsg.pro qmake tspsg.pro CONFIG+=release nmake
There is no automated installation process for Windows Mobile build. To install TSPSG on your PDA you need to create a folder on your device and copy the following files to it:
release folder in the source directory.QtGui4.dll from C:\Qt\bin folder.C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\ce\dll\armv4i folder.l10n folder in the source directory to l10n subfolder.Unpack the downloaded source code of TSPSG with your favourite compression software. Now launch the Qt for Symbian Command Prompt from the Start Menu, navigate to the directory where you unpacked the source and run
lrelease tspsg.pro qmake tspsg.pro CONFIG+=release make release-gcce
If make step finished without errors you can generate sis installation file by running
make sis
You'll get tspsg.sis file in the source directory. Copy it to your phone and run or install it using Nokia PC Suite.
qt_installer.sis from the Qt installation directory.Alternatively, if you have installed Nokia Smart Installer[2] you can run
make installer_sis
You'll get an tspsg_installer.sis that will automatically download and install the required Qt libraries on TSPSG installation.
While TSPSG is oficially supported only on Linux, Windows and Windows Mobile it should be possible to compile it on any platform, supported by Qt. To do so, please, refer to the section GENERAL INSTALLATION PROCEDURE for the general build and installation procedure.
Usually, it is enough to replace install parameter with uninstall in the installation command from the section BUILDING AND INSTALLATION. Alternatively, you can manually delete all installed TSPSG files and directories.
When building under Windows using minGW toolchain make process may fail with windres.exe crash (access violation). This is a known bug in windres.exe regarding processing resource files with UTF-8 (cp65001) encoding[4]. To be able to successfully build TSPSG you will need to download and replace windres.exe with a fixed version. To do this:
binutils-2.20.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.gz.bin\windres.exe from the downloaded archive to <Your Qt installation path>\mingw\bin\ replacing the existing one.mingw32-make distcleanin the TSPSG directory and repeat the installation process.
qmake doesn't always enclose installation paths in quotes. This may cause some files not to be installed or removed when their path contains spaces. In this case it is safe to delete these files and TSPSG installation directory manually.
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