Quantum GIS (QGIS) Building QGIS from source - step by step ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction 2. General Build Notes 2.1. An overview of the dependencies required for building 3. Building under windows using msys 3.1. MSYS: 3.2. Qt4.3 3.3. Flex and Bison 3.4. Python stuff: (optional) 3.4.1. Download and install Python - use Windows installer 3.4.2. Download SIP and PyQt4 sources 3.4.3. Compile SIP 3.4.4. Compile PyQt 3.4.5. Final python notes 3.5. Subversion: 3.6. CMake: 3.7. QGIS: 3.8. Compiling: 3.9. Configuration 3.10. Compilation and installation 3.11. Run qgis.exe from the directory where it's installed (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX) 3.12. Create the installation package: (optional) 4. Building on Mac OSX using frameworks and cmake (QGIS > 0.8) 4.1. Install XCODE 4.2. Install Qt4 from .dmg 4.3. Install development frameworks for QGIS dependencies 4.3.1. Additional Dependencies : GSL 4.3.2. Additional Dependencies : Expat 4.3.3. Additional Dependencies : SIP 4.3.4. Additional Dependencies : PyQt 4.3.5. Additional Dependencies : Bison 4.4. Install CMAKE for OSX 4.5. Install subversion for OSX 4.6. Check out QGIS from SVN 4.7. Configure the build 4.8. GEOS Issues 4.9. Building 5. Building on GNU/Linux 5.1. Building QGIS with Qt4.x 5.2. Prepare apt 5.3. Install Qt4 5.4. Install additional software dependencies required by QGIS 5.5. GRASS Specific Steps 5.6. Setup ccache (Optional) 5.7. Prepare your development environment 5.8. Check out the QGIS Source Code 5.9. Starting the compile 5.10. Running QGIS 6. Creation of MSYS environment for compilation of Quantum GIS 6.1. Initial setup 6.1.1. MSYS 6.1.2. MinGW 6.1.3. Flex and Bison 6.2. Installing dependencies 6.2.1. Getting ready 6.2.2. GDAL level one 6.2.3. GRASS 6.2.4. GDAL level two 6.2.5. GEOS 6.2.6. SQLITE 6.2.7. GSL 6.2.8. EXPAT 6.2.9. POSTGRES 6.3. Cleanup 7. Building with MS Visual Studio 7.1. Setup Visual Studio 7.1.1. Express Edition 7.1.2. All Editions 7.2. Download/Install Dependencies 7.2.1. Flex and Bison 7.2.2. To include PostgreSQL support in Qt 7.2.3. Qt 7.2.4. Proj.4 7.2.5. GSL 7.2.6. GEOS 7.2.7. GDAL 7.2.8. PostGIS 7.2.9. Expat 7.2.10. CMake 7.3. Building QGIS with CMAKE 8. Building under Windows using MSVC Express 8.1. System preparation 8.2. Install the libraries archive 8.3. Install Visual Studio Express 2005 8.4. Install Microsoft Platform SDK2 8.5. Edit your vsvars 8.6. Environment Variables 8.7. Building Qt4.3.2 8.7.1. Compile Qt 8.7.2. Configure Visual C++ to use Qt 8.8. Install Python 8.9. Install SIP 8.10. Install PyQt4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction =============== This document is the original installation guide of the described software Quantum GIS. The software and hardware descriptions named in this document are in most cases registered trademarks and are therefore subject to the legal requirements. Quantum GIS is subject to the GNU General Public License. Find more information on the Quantum GIS Homepage: http://www.qgis.org The details, that are given in this document have been written and verified to the best of knowledge and responsibility of the editors. Nevertheless, mistakes concerning the content are possible. Therefore, all data are not liable to any duties or guarantees. The editors and publishers do not take any responsibility or liability for failures and their consequences. You are always welcome for indicating possible mistakes. You can download this document as part of the Quantum GIS 'User and Installation Guide' in HTML and PDF format via http://www.qgis.org. A current version is also available at the wiki, see: http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/BuildingFromSource Translations of this document can also be downloaded at the documentation area of the Quantum GIS project at http://www.qgis.org. More information is available via http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/DocumentationWritersCorner. Please visit http://qgis.org for information on joining our mailing lists and getting involved in the project further. /!\ *Note to document writers:* Please use this document as the central place for describing build procefures. Please do not remove this notice. /!\ *Note:* This is a 'cut and paste' tutorial - in most cases you can simply copy the commands listed in codeblocks that look like this: somecommand to be pasted 2. General Build Notes ====================== At version 0.8.1 QGIS no longer uses the autotools for building. QGIS, like a number of major projects (eg. KDE 4.0), now uses cmake for building from source. The configure script in this directory simply checks for the existence of cmake and provides some clues to build QGIS. For complete information, see the wiki at: http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Building_with_CMake 2.1. An overview of the dependencies required for building ========================================================== '''Required build deps:''' * CMake >= 2.4.3 * Flex, Bison '''Required runtime deps:''' * Qt >= 4.2.0 * Proj >= ? (known to work with 4.4.x) * GEOS >= 2.2 (3.0 is supported, maybe 2.1.x works too) * Sqlite3 >= ? (probably 3.0.0) * GDAL/OGR >= ? (1.2.x should work) '''Optional dependencies:''' * for GRASS plugin - GRASS >= 6.0.0 * for georeferencer - GSL >= ? (works with 1.8) * for postgis support and SPIT plugin - PostgreSQL >= ? * for gps plugin - expat >= ? (1.95 is OK) * for mapserver export and PyQGIS - Python >= ? (probably 2.3) * for PyQGIS - SIP >= 4.5, PyQt >= 4.1 '''Recommended runtime deps:''' * for gps plugin - gpsbabel 3. Building under windows using msys ==================================== 3.1. MSYS: ========== MSYS provides a unix style build environment under windows. We have created a zip archive that contains just about all dependencies. Get this: http://qgis.org/uploadfiles/msys/msys.zip and unpack to c:\msys If you wish to prepare your msys environment yourself rather than using our pre-made one, detailed instructions are provided elsewhere in this document. 3.2. Qt4.3 ========== Download qt4.3 opensource precompiled edition exe and install (including the download and install of mingw) from here: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/windows When the installer will ask for MinGW, you don't need to download and install it, just point the installer to c:\msys\mingw When Qt installation is complete: Edit C:\Qt\4.3.0\bin\qtvars.bat and add the following lines: set PATH=%PATH%;C:\msys\local\bin;c:\msys\local\lib set PATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin" I suggest you also add C:\Qt\4.3.0\bin\ to your Environment Variables Path in the windows system preferences. If you plan to do some debugging, you'll need to compile debug version of Qt: C:\Qt\4.3.0\bin\qtvars.bat compile_debug Note: there is a problem when compiling debug version of Qt 4.3, the script ends with this message "mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `debug'. Stop.". To compile the debug version you have to go out of src directory and execute the following command: c:\Qt\4.3.0 make 3.3. Flex and Bison =================== *** Note I think this section can be removed as it should be installed int the msys image already. TS Get Flex http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id=16424 (the zip bin) and extract it into c:\msys\mingw\bin 3.4. Python stuff: (optional) ============================= Follow this section in case you would like to use Python bindings for QGIS. To be able to compile bindings, you need to compile SIP and PyQt4 from sources as their installer doesn't include some development files which are necessary. 3.4.1. Download and install Python - use Windows installer ========================================================== (It doesn't matter to what folder you'll install it) http://python.org/download/ 3.4.2. Download SIP and PyQt4 sources ===================================== http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/sip4/ http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/PyQt4/GPL/ Extract each of the above zip files in a temporary directory. Make sure to get versions that match your current Qt installed version. 3.4.3. Compile SIP ================== c:\Qt\4.3.0\bin\qtvars.bat python configure.py -p win32-g++ make make install 3.4.4. Compile PyQt =================== c:\Qt\4.3.0\bin\qtvars.bat python configure.py make make install 3.4.5. Final python notes ========================= /!\ You can delete the directories with unpacked SIP and PyQt4 sources after a successfull install, they're not needed anymore. 3.5. Subversion: ================ In order to check out QGIS sources from the repository, you need Subversion client. This installer should work fine: http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/36797/svn-1.4.3-setup.exe 3.6. CMake: =========== CMake is build system used by Quantum GIS. Download it from here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.4/cmake-2.4.6-win32-x86.exe 3.7. QGIS: ========== Start a cmd.exe window ( Start -> Run -> cmd.exe ) Create development directory and move into it md c:\dev\cpp cd c:\dev\cpp Check out sources from SVN For svn head: svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/trunk/qgis For svn 0.8 branch svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/branches/Release-0_8_0 qgis0.8 3.8. Compiling: =============== As a background read the generic building with CMake notes at the end of this document. Start a cmd.exe window ( Start -> Run -> cmd.exe ) if you don't have one already. Add paths to compiler and our MSYS environment: c:\Qt\4.3.0\bin\qtvars.bat For ease of use add c:\Qt\4.3.0\bin\ to your system path in system properties so you can just type qtvars.bat when you open the cmd console. Create build directory and set it as current directory: cd c:\dev\cpp\qgis md build cd build 3.9. Configuration ================== cmakesetup .. /!\ NOTE: You must include the '..' above. Click 'Configure' button. When asked, you should choose 'MinGW Makefiles' as generator. There's a problem with MinGW Makefiles on Win2K. If you're compiling on this platform, use 'MSYS Makefiles' generator instead. All dependencies should be picked up automatically, if you have set up the Paths correctly. The only thing you need to change is the installation destination (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX) and/or set 'Debug'. For compatibility with NSIS packaging cripts I recommend to leave the install prefix to its default c:\program files\ When configuration is done, click 'OK' to exit the setup utility. 3.10. Compilation and installation ================================== make make install 3.11. Run qgis.exe from the directory where it's installed (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX) ================================================================================= Make sure to copy all .dll:s needed to the same directory as the qgis.exe binary is installed to, if not already done so, otherwise QGIS will complain about missing libraries when started. The best way to do this is to download both the QGIS current release installer package from http://qgis.org/uploadfiles/testbuilds/ and install it. Now copy the installation dir from C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS into c:\Program Files\qgis-0.8.1 (or whatever the current version is. The name should strictly match the version no.) After making this copy you can uninstall the release version of QGIS from your c:\Program Files directory using the provided uninstaller. Double check that the Quantum GIS dir is completely gone under program files afterwards. Another possibility is to run qgis.exe when your path contains c:\msys\local\bin and c:\msys\local\lib directories, so the DLLs will be used from that place. 3.12. Create the installation package: (optional) ================================================= Downlad and install NSIS from (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page) Now using windows explorer, enter the win_build directory in your QGIS source tree. Read the READMEfile there and follow the instructions. Next right click on qgis.nsi and choose the option 'Compile NSIS Script'. 4. Building on Mac OSX using frameworks and cmake (QGIS > 0.8) ============================================================== In this approach I will try to avoid as much as possible building dependencies from source and rather use frameworks wherever possible. 4.1. Install XCODE ================== I recommend to get the latest xcode dmg from the Apple XDC Web site. Install XCODE after the ~941mb download is complete. 4.2. Install Qt4 from .dmg ========================== You need a minimum of Qt4.2. I suggest getting the latest (at time of writing). ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-mac-opensource-4.3.2.dmg If you want debug libs, Qt also provide a dmg with these: ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-mac-opensource-4.3.2-debug-libs.dmg I am going to proceed using only release libs at this stage as the download for the debug dmg is substantially bigger. If you plan to do any debugging though you probably want to get the debug libs dmg. Once downloaded open the dmg and run the installer. Note you need admin access to install. After installing you need to make two small changes: First edit /Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Headers/qconfig.h and change /!\ Note this doesnt seem to be needed since version 4.2.3 QT_EDITION_UNKNOWN to QT_EDITION_OPENSOURCE Second change the default mkspec symlink so that it points to macx-g++: cd /usr/local/Qt4.3/mkspecs/ sudo rm default sudo ln -sf macx-g++ default 4.3. Install development frameworks for QGIS dependencies ========================================================= Download William Kyngesburye's excellent all in one framework that includes proj, gdal, sqlite3 etc http://www.kyngchaos.com/files/software/unixport/AllFrameworks.dmg Once downloaded, open and install the frameworks. William provides an additional installer package for Postgresql/PostGIS. Its available here: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/unixport/postgres There are some additional dependencies that at the time of writing are not provided as frameworks so we will need to build these from source. 4.3.1. Additional Dependencies : GSL ==================================== Retrieve the Gnu Scientific Library from curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.8.tar.gz Then extract it and build it to a prefix of /usr/local: tar xvfz gsl-1.8.tar.gz cd gsl-1.8 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install cd .. 4.3.2. Additional Dependencies : Expat ====================================== Get the expat sources: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10127 tar xvfz expat-2.0.0.tar.gz cd expat-2.0.0 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install cd .. 4.3.3. Additional Dependencies : SIP ==================================== Retrieve the python bindings toolkit SIP from http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/sip4/ Then extract and build it to a prefix of /usr/local: tar xvfz sip-.tar.gz cd sip- python configure.py make sudo make install cd .. 4.3.4. Additional Dependencies : PyQt ===================================== Make sure you have the latest python fom http://www.python.org/download/mac/ If you encounter problems compiling PyQt using the instructions below you can also try adding python from your frameworks dir explicitly to your path e.g. export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:$PATH$ Retrieve the python bindings toolkit for Qt from http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/PyQt4/GPL/ Then extract and build it to a prefix of /usr/local: tar xvfz PyQt-mac cd PyQt-mac python configure.py yes make sudo make install cd .. 4.3.5. Additional Dependencies : Bison ====================================== The version of bison available by default on Mac OSX is too old so you need to get a more recent one on your system. Download if from: curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-2.3.tar.gz Now build and install it to a prefix of /usr/local : tar xvfz bison-2.3.tar.gz cd bison-2.3 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install cd .. 4.4. Install CMAKE for OSX ========================== Get the latest release from here: http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html At the time of writing the file I grabbed was: curl -O http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.4/cmake-2.4.6-Darwin-universal.dmg Once downloaded open the dmg and run the installer 4.5. Install subversion for OSX =============================== The http://sourceforge.net/projects/macsvn/ (MacSVN) project has a downloadable build of svn. If you are a GUI inclined person you may want to grab their gui client too. Get the command line client here: curl -O http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/macsvn/Subversion_1.4.2.zip Once downloaded open the zip file and run the installer. You also need to install BerkleyDB available from the same http://sourceforge.net/projects/macsvn/ (website). At the time of writing the file was here: curl -O http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/macsvn/Berkeley_DB_4.5.20.zip Once again unzip this and run the installer therein. Lastly we need to ensure that the svn commandline executeable is in the path. Add the following line to the end of /etc/bashrc using sudo: sudo vim /etc/bashrc And add this line to the bottom before saving and quiting: export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/bin /usr/local/bin needs to be first in the path so that the newer bison (that will be built from source further down) is found before the bison (which is very old) that is installed by MacOSX Now close and reopen your shell to get the updated vars. 4.6. Check out QGIS from SVN ============================ Now we are going to check out the sources for QGIS. First we will create a directory for working in: mkdir -p ~/dev/cpp cd ~/dev/cpp Now we check out the sources: Trunk: svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/trunk/qgis qgis For svn 0.8 branch svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/branches/Release-0_8_0 qgis0.8 For svn 0.9 branch svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/branches/Release-0_9_0 qgis0.9 The first time you check out QGIS sources you will probably get a message like this: Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.qgis.org:443': - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! Certificate information: - Hostname: svn.qgis.org - Valid: from Apr 1 00:30:47 2006 GMT until Mar 21 00:30:47 2008 GMT - Issuer: Developer Team, Quantum GIS, Anchorage, Alaska, US - Fingerprint: 2f:cd:f1:5a:c7:64:da:2b:d1:34:a5:20:c6:15:67:28:33:ea:7a:9b (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? I suggest you press 'p' to accept the key permanently. 4.7. Configure the build ======================== CMake supports out of source build so we will create a 'build' dir for the build process . By convention I build my software into a dir called 'apps' in my home directory. If you have the correct permissions you may want to build straight into your /Applications folder (although personally I dont really recommend this). The instructions below assume you are building into a pre-existing ${HOME}/apps directory ... cd qgis mkdir build cd build cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/apps/ -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. To use a specific GRASS version, You can optionally use the following cmake invocation (with modifications to suite your system (thanks William Kyngesburye for this hint): cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${HOME}/apps/ \ -D GRASS_INCLUDE_DIR=/Applications/GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/Resources/include \ -D GRASS_PREFIX=/Applications/GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/Resources \ -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ .. 4.8. GEOS Issues ================ I had some issues with GEOS headers so I made the following edits: In file /Library/Frameworks/GEOS.framework/Headers/io.h, comment out line 61 In file /Library/Frameworks/GEOS.framework/Headers/geom.h, comment out line 145 4.9. Building ============= Now we can start the build process: make If all built without errors you can then install it: make install 5. Building on GNU/Linux ======================== 5.1. Building QGIS with Qt4.x ============================= Requires: Ubuntu Edgy / Debian derived distro These notes are current for Ubuntu 7.10 - other versions and Debian derived distros may require slight variations in package names. These notes are for if you want to build QGIS from source. One of the major aims here is to show how this can be done using binary packages for *all* dependencies - building only the core QGIS stuff from source. I prefer this approach because it means we can leave the business of managing system packages to apt and only concern ourselves with coding QGIS! This document assumes you have made a fresh install and have a 'clean' system. These instructions should work fine if this is a system that has already been in use for a while, you may need to just skip those steps which are irrelevant to you. 5.2. Prepare apt ================ The packages qgis depends on to build are available in the "universe" component of Ubuntu. This is not activated by default, so you need to activate it: 1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file. 2. Uncomment the all the lines starting with "deb" Also you will need to be running (K)Ubuntu 'edgy' or higher in order for all dependencies to be met. Now update your local sources database: sudo apt-get update 5.3. Install Qt4 ================ sudo apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-debug \ libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql lsb-qt4 qt4-designer \ qt4-dev-tools qt4-doc qt4-qtconfig uim-qt gcc libapt-pkg-perl resolvconf /!\ *A Special Note:* If you are following this set of instructions on a system where you already have Qt3 development tools installed, there will be a conflict between Qt3 tools and Qt4 tools. For example, qmake will point to the Qt3 version not the Qt4. Ubuntu Qt4 and Qt3 packages are designed to live alongside each other. This means that for example if you have them both installed you will have three qmake exe's: /usr/bin/qmake -> /etc/alternatives/qmake /usr/bin/qmake-qt3 /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 The same applies to all other Qt binaries. You will notice above that the canonical 'qmake' is managed by apt alternatives, so before we start to build QGIS, we need to make Qt4 the default. To return Qt3 to default later you can use this same process. You can use apt alternatives to correct this so that the Qt4 version of applications is used in all cases: sudo update-alternatives --config qmake sudo update-alternatives --config uic sudo update-alternatives --config designer sudo update-alternatives --config assistant sudo update-alternatives --config qtconfig sudo update-alternatives --config moc sudo update-alternatives --config lupdate sudo update-alternatives --config lrelease sudo update-alternatives --config linguist Use the simple command line dialog that appears after running each of the above commands to select the Qt4 version of the relevant applications. 5.4. Install additional software dependencies required by QGIS ============================================================== sudo apt-get install gdal-bin libgdal1-dev libgeos-dev proj \ libgdal-doc libhdf4g-dev libhdf4g-run python-dev \ libgsl0-dev g++ libjasper-dev libtiff4-dev subversion \ libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 ccache make libpq-dev flex bison cmake txt2tags \ python-qt4 python-qt4-dev python-sip4 sip4 python-sip4-dev /!\ Debian users should use libgdal-dev above rather /!\ *Note:* For python language bindings SIP >= 4.5 and PyQt4 >= 4.1 is required! Some stable GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian or SuSE) only provide SIP < 4.5 and PyQt4 < 4.1. To include support for python language bindings you may need to build and install those packages from source. 5.5. GRASS Specific Steps ========================= /!\ *Note:* If you don't need to build with GRASS support, you can skip this section. Now you can install grass from dapper: sudo apt-get install grass libgrass-dev libgdal-1.4.0-grass /!\ You may need to explicitly state your grass version e.g. libgdal1-1.3.2-grass 5.6. Setup ccache (Optional) ============================ You should also setup ccache to speed up compile times: cd /usr/local/bin sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ccache gcc sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ccache g++ 5.7. Prepare your development environment ========================================= As a convention I do all my development work in $HOME/dev/, so in this case we will create a work environment for C++ development work like this: mkdir -p ${HOME}/dev/cpp cd ${HOME}/dev/cpp This directory path will be assumed for all instructions that follow. 5.8. Check out the QGIS Source Code =================================== There are two ways the source can be checked out. Use the anonymous method if you do not have edit privaleges for the QGIS source repository, or use the developer checkout if you have permissions to commit source code changes. 1. Anonymous Checkout cd ${HOME}/dev/cpp svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/trunk/qgis qgis 2. Developer Checkout cd ${HOME}/dev/cpp svn co --username https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/trunk/qgis qgis The first time you check out the source you will be prompted to accept the qgis.org certificate. Press 'p' to accept it permanently: Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.qgis.org:443': - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! Certificate information: - Hostname: svn.qgis.org - Valid: from Apr 1 00:30:47 2006 GMT until Mar 21 00:30:47 2008 GMT - Issuer: Developer Team, Quantum GIS, Anchorage, Alaska, US - Fingerprint: 2f:cd:f1:5a:c7:64:da:2b:d1:34:a5:20:c6:15:67:28:33:ea:7a:9b (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? 5.9. Starting the compile ========================= I compile my development version of QGIS into my ~/apps directory to avoid conflicts with Ubuntu packages that may be under /usr. This way for example you can use the binary packages of QGIS on your system along side with your development version. I suggest you do something similar: mkdir -p ${HOME}/apps Now we create a build directory and run ccmake: cd qgis mkdir build cd build ccmake .. When you run ccmake (note the .. is required!), a menu will appear where you can configure various aspects of the build. If you do not have root access or do not want to overwrite existing QGIS installs (by your packagemanager for example), set the CMAKE_BUILD_PREFIX to somewhere you have write access to (I usually use /home/timlinux/apps). Now press 'c' to configure, 'e' to dismiss any error messages that may appear. and 'g' to generate the make files. Note that sometimes 'c' needs to be pressed several times before the 'g' option becomes available. After the 'g' generation is complete, press 'q' to exit the ccmake interactive dialog. Now on with the build: make make install It may take a little while to build depending on your platform. 5.10. Running QGIS ================== Now you can try to run QGIS: $HOME/apps/bin/qgis If all has worked properly the QGIS application should start up and appear on your screen. 6. Creation of MSYS environment for compilation of Quantum GIS ============================================================== 6.1. Initial setup ================== 6.1.1. MSYS =========== This is the environment that supplies many utilities from UNIX world in Windows and is needed by many dependencies to be able to compile. Download from here: http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw/MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe Install to c:\msys All stuff we're going to compile is going to get to this directory (resp. its subdirs). 6.1.2. MinGW ============ Download from here: http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw/MinGW-5.1.3.exe Install to c:\msys\mingw It suffices to download and install only g++ and mingw-make components. 6.1.3. Flex and Bison ===================== Flex and Bison are tools for generation of parsers, they're needed for GRASS and also QGIS compilation. Download the following packages: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/flex-bin-zip.php http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/bison-bin-zip.php http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/bison-dep-zip.php Unpack them all to c:\msys\local 6.2. Installing dependencies ============================ 6.2.1. Getting ready ==================== Paul Kelly did a great job and prepared a package of precompiled libraries for GRASS. The package currently includes: - zlib-1.2.3 - libpng-1.2.16-noconfig - xdr-4.0-mingw2 - freetype-2.3.4 - fftw-2.1.5 - PDCurses-3.1 - proj-4.5.0 - gdal-1.4.1 It's available for download here: http://www.stjohnspoint.co.uk/grass/wingrass-extralibs.tar.gz Moreover he also left the notes how to compile it (for those interested): http://www.stjohnspoint.co.uk/grass/README.extralibs Unpack the whole package to c:\msys\local 6.2.2. GDAL level one ===================== Since Quantum GIS needs GDAL with GRASS support, we need to compile GDAL from source - Paul Kelly's package doesn't include GRASS support in GDAL. The idea is following: 1. compile GDAL without GRASS 2. compile GRASS 3. compile GDAL with GRASS So, start with downloading GDAL sources: http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal141.zip Unpack it to some directory, preferably c:\msys\local\src. Start MSYS console, go to gdal-1.4.1 directory and run the commands below. You can put them all to a script, e.g. build-gdal.sh and run them at once. The recipe is taken from Paul Kelly's instructions - basically they just make sure that the library will be created as DLL and the utility programs will be dynamically linked to it... CFLAGS="-O2 -s" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -s" LDFLAGS=-s ./configure --without-libtool --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --disable-static --with-libz=/usr/local --with-png=/usr/local make make install rm /usr/local/lib/libgdal.a g++ -s -shared -o ./libgdal.dll -L/usr/local/lib -lz -lpng ./frmts/o/*.o ./gcore/*.o ./port/*.o ./alg/*.o ./ogr/ogrsf_frmts/o/*.o ./ogr/ogrgeometryfactory.o ./ogr/ogrpoint.o ./ogr/ogrcurve.o ./ogr/ogrlinestring.o ./ogr/ogrlinearring.o ./ogr/ogrpolygon.o ./ogr/ogrutils.o ./ogr/ogrgeometry.o ./ogr/ogrgeometrycollection.o ./ogr/ogrmultipolygon.o ./ogr/ogrsurface.o ./ogr/ogrmultipoint.o ./ogr/ogrmultilinestring.o ./ogr/ogr_api.o ./ogr/ogrfeature.o ./ogr/ogrfeaturedefn.o ./ogr/ogrfeaturequery.o ./ogr/ogrfeaturestyle.o ./ogr/ogrfielddefn.o ./ogr/ogrspatialreference.o ./ogr/ogr_srsnode.o ./ogr/ogr_srs_proj4.o ./ogr/ogr_fromepsg.o ./ogr/ogrct.o ./ogr/ogr_opt.o ./ogr/ogr_srs_esri.o ./ogr/ogr_srs_pci.o ./ogr/ogr_srs_usgs.o ./ogr/ogr_srs_dict.o ./ogr/ogr_srs_panorama.o ./ogr/swq.o ./ogr/ogr_srs_validate.o ./ogr/ogr_srs_xml.o ./ogr/ograssemblepolygon.o ./ogr/ogr2gmlgeometry.o ./ogr/gml2ogrgeometry.o install libgdal.dll /usr/local/lib cd ogr g++ -s ogrinfo.o -o ogrinfo.exe -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal g++ -s ogr2ogr.o -o ogr2ogr.exe -lgdal -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal g++ -s ogrtindex.o -o ogrtindex.exe -lgdal -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal install ogrinfo.exe ogr2ogr.exe ogrtindex.exe /usr/local/bin cd ../apps g++ -s gdalinfo.o -o gdalinfo.exe -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal g++ -s gdal_translate.o -o gdal_translate.exe -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal g++ -s gdaladdo.o -o gdaladdo.exe -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal g++ -s gdalwarp.o -o gdalwarp.exe -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal g++ -s gdal_contour.o -o gdal_contour.exe -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal g++ -s gdaltindex.o -o gdaltindex.exe -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal g++ -s gdal_rasterize.o -o gdal_rasterize.exe -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal install gdalinfo.exe gdal_translate.exe gdaladdo.exe gdalwarp.exe gdal_contour.exe gdaltindex.exe gdal_rasterize.exe /usr/local/bin Finally, manually edit gdal-config in c:\msys\local\bin to replace the static library reference with -lgdal: CONFIG_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lgdal" GDAL build procedure can be greatly simplified to use libtool with a libtool line patch: configure gdal as below: ./configure --with-ngpython --with-xerces=/local/ --with-jasper=/local/ --with-grass=/local/grass-6.3.cvs/ --with-pg=/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config.exe Then fix libtool with: mv libtool libtool.orig cat libtool.orig | sed 's/max_cmd_len=8192/max_cmd_len=32768/g' > libtool Libtool on windows assumes a line length limit of 8192 for some reason and tries to page the linking and fails miserably. This is a work around. Make and make install should be hassle free after this. 6.2.3. GRASS ============ Grab sources from CVS or use a weekly snapshot, see: http://grass.itc.it/devel/cvs.php In MSYS console go to the directory where you've unpacked or checked out sources (e.g. c:\msys\local\src\grass-6.3.cvs) Run these commands: export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib:$PATH" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --bindir=/usr/local --with-includes=/usr/local/include --with-libs=/usr/local/lib --with-cxx --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-postgres --with-opengl=windows --with-fftw --with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/local/include/freetype2 --without-x --without-tcltk --enable-x11=no --enable-shared=yes --with-proj-share=/usr/local/share/proj make make install It should get installed to c:\msys\local\grass-6.3.cvs By the way, these pages might be useful: - http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status - http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html 6.2.4. GDAL level two ===================== At this stage, we'll use GDAL sources we've used before, only the compilation will be a bit different. But first in order to be able to compile GDAL sources with current GRASS CVS, you need to patch them, here's what you need to change: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/attachment/ticket/1587/plugin_patch_grass63.diff (you can patch it by hand or use patch.exe in c:\msys\bin) Now in MSYS console go to the GDAL sources directory and run the same commands as in level one, only with these differences: 1. when running ./configure add this argument: --with-grass=/usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs 2. when calling g++ on line 5 (which creates libgdal.dll), add these arguments: -L/usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/lib -lgrass_vect -lgrass_dig2 -lgrass_dgl -lgrass_rtree -lgrass_linkm -lgrass_dbmiclient -lgrass_dbmibase -lgrass_I -lgrass_gproj -lgrass_vask -lgrass_gmath -lgrass_gis -lgrass_datetime Then again, edit gdal-config and change line with CONFIG_LIBS CONFIG_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lpng -L/usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/lib -lgrass_vect -lgrass_dig2 -lgrass_dgl -lgrass_rtree -lgrass_linkm -lgrass_dbmiclient -lgrass_dbmibase -lgrass_I -lgrass_gproj -lgrass_vask -lgrass_gmath -lgrass_gis -lgrass_datetime -lz -L/usr/local/lib -lgdal" Now, GDAL should be able to work also with GRASS raster layers. 6.2.5. GEOS =========== Download the sources: http://geos.refractions.net/geos-2.2.3.tar.bz2 Unpack to e.g. c:\msys\local\src To compile, I had to patch the sources: in file source/headers/timeval.h line 13. Change it from: #ifdef _WIN32 to: #if defined(_WIN32) && defined(_MSC_VER) Now, in MSYS console, go to the source directory and run: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install 6.2.6. SQLITE ============= You can use precompiled DLL, no need to compile from source: Download this archive: http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-3_3_17.zip and copy sqlite3.dll from it to c:\msys\local\lib Then download this archive: http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-source-3_3_17.zip and copy sqlite3.h to c:\msys\local\include 6.2.7. GSL ========== Download sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.9.tar.gz Unpack to c:\msys\local\src Run from MSYS console in the source directory: ./configure make make install 6.2.8. EXPAT ============ Download sources: http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-2.0.0.tar.gz Unpack to c:\msys\local\src Run from MSYS console in the source directory: ./configure make make install 6.2.9. POSTGRES =============== We're going to use precompiled binaries. Use the link below for download: http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/download/mirrors-ftp?file=%2Fbinary%2Fv8.2.4%2Fwin32%2Fpostgresql-8.2.4-1-binaries-no-installer.zip copy contents of pgsql directory from the archive to c:\msys\local 6.3. Cleanup ============ We're done with preparation of MSYS environment. Now you can delete all stuff in c:\msys\local\src - it takes quite a lot of space and it's not necessary at all. 7. Building with MS Visual Studio ================================= /!\ This section describes a process where you build all dependencies yourself. See the section after this for a simpler procedure where we have all the dependencies you need pre-packaged and we focus just on getting Visual Studio Express set up and building QGIS. Note that this does not currently include GRASS or Python plugins. 7.1. Setup Visual Studio ======================== This section describes the setup required to allow Visual Studio to be used to build QGIS. 7.1.1. Express Edition ====================== The free Express Edition lacks the platform SDK which contains headers and so on that are needed when building QGIS. The platform SDK can be installed as described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/ Once this is done, you will need to edit the \Common7\Tools\vsvars file as follows: Add %PlatformSDKDir%\Include\atl and %PlatformSDKDir%\Include\mfc to the @set INCLUDE entry. This will add more headers to the system INCLUDE path. Note that this will only work when you use the Visual Studio command prompt when building. Most of the dependencies will be built with this. You will also need to perform the edits described here to remove the need for a library that Visual Studio Express lacks: http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/WTLExpress.asp 7.1.2. All Editions =================== You will need stdint.h and unistd.h. unistd.h comes with GnuWin32 version of flex & bison binaries (see later). stdint.h can be found here: http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/pstdint.h. Copy both of these to \VC\include. 7.2. Download/Install Dependencies ================================== This section describes the downloading and installation of the various QGIS dependencies. 7.2.1. Flex and Bison ===================== Flex and Bison are tools for generation of parsers, they're needed for GRASS and also QGIS compilation. Download the following packages and run the installers: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/flex.php http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/bison.php 7.2.2. To include PostgreSQL support in Qt =========================================== If you want to build Qt with PostgreSQL support you need to download PostgreSQL, install it and create a library you can later link with Qt. Download from .../binary/v8.2.5/win32/postgresql-8.2.5-1.zip from an PostgreSQL.org Mirror and install. PostgreSQL is currently build with MinGW and comes with headers and libraries for MinGW. The headers can be used with Visual C++ out of the box, but the library is only shipped in DLL and archive (.a) form and therefore cannot be used with Visual C++ directly. To create a library copy following sed script to the file mkdef.sed in PostgreSQL lib directory: /Dump of file / { s/Dump of file \([^ ]*\)$/LIBRARY \1/p a\ EXPORTS } /[ ]*ordinal hint/,/^[ ]*Summary/ { /^[ ]\+[0-9]\+/ { s/^[ ]\+[0-9]\+[ ]\+[0-9A-Fa-f]\+[ ]\+[0-9A-Fa-f]\+[ ]\+\([^ =]\+\).*$/ \1/p } } and process execute in the Visual Studio C++ command line (from Programs menu): cd c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\bin dumpbin /exports ..\bin\libpq.dll | sed -nf ../lib/mkdef.sed >..\lib\libpq.def cd ..\lib lib /def:libpq.def /machine:x86 You'll need an sed for that to work in your path (e.g. from cygwin or msys). That's almost it. You only need to the include and lib path to INCLUDE and LIB in vcvars.bat respectively. 7.2.3. Qt ========= Build Qt following the instructions here: http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Building_QT_4_with_Visual_C%2B%2B_2005 7.2.4. Proj.4 ============= Get proj.4 source from here: http://proj.maptools.org/ Using the Visual Studio command prompt (ensures the environment is setup properly), run the following in the src directory: nmake -f makefile.vc Install by running the following in the top level directory setting PROJ_DIR as appropriate: set PROJ_DIR=c:\lib\proj mkdir %PROJ_DIR%\bin mkdir %PROJ_DIR%\include mkdir %PROJ_DIR%\lib copy src\*.dll %PROJ_DIR%\bin copy src\*.exe %PROJ_DIR%\bin copy src\*.h %PROJ_DIR%\include copy src\*.lib %PROJ_DIR%\lib This can also be added to a batch file. 7.2.5. GSL ========== Get gsl source from here: http://david.geldreich.free.fr/downloads/gsl-1.9-windows-sources.zip Build using the gsl.sln file 7.2.6. GEOS =========== Get geos from svn (svn checkout http://svn.refractions.net/geos/trunk geos). Edit geos\source\makefile.vc as follows: Uncomment lines 333 and 334 to allow the copying of version.h.vc to version.h. Uncomment lines 338 and 339. Rename geos_c.h.vc to geos_c.h.in on lines 338 and 339 to allow the copying of geos_c.h.in to geos_c.h. Using the Visual Studio command prompt (ensures the environment is setup properly), run the following in the top level directory: nmake -f makefile.vc Run the following in top level directory, setting GEOS_DIR as appropriate: set GEOS_DIR="c:\lib\geos" mkdir %GEOS_DIR%\include mkdir %GEOS_DIR%\lib mkdir %GEOS_DIR%\bin xcopy /S/Y source\headers\*.h %GEOS_DIR%\include copy /Y capi\*.h %GEOS_DIR%\include copy /Y source\*.lib %GEOS_DIR%\lib copy /Y source\*.dll %GEOS_DIR%\bin This can also be added to a batch file. 7.2.7. GDAL =========== Get gdal from svn (svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/1.4/gdal gdal). Edit nmake.opt to suit, it's pretty well commented. Using the Visual Studio command prompt (ensures the environment is setup properly), run the following in the top level directory: nmake -f makefile.vc and nmake -f makefile.vc devinstall 7.2.8. PostGIS ============== Get PostGIS and the Windows version of PostgreSQL from here: http://postgis.refractions.net/download/ Note the warning about not installing the version of PostGIS that comes with the PostgreSQL installer. Simply run the installers. 7.2.9. Expat ============ Get expat from here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10127 You'll need expat-win32bin-2.0.1.exe. Simply run the executable to install expat. 7.2.10. CMake ============= Get CMake from here: http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html You'll need cmake--win32-x86.exe. Simply run this to install CMake. 7.3. Building QGIS with CMAKE ============================= Get QGIS source from svn (svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/trunk/qgis qgis). Create a 'Build' directory in the top level QGIS directory. This will be where all the build output will be generated. Run Start-->All Programs-->CMake-->CMake. In the 'Where is the source code:' box, browse to the top level QGIS directory. In the 'Where to build the binaries:' box, browse to the 'Build' directory you created in the top level QGIS directory. Fill in the various *_INCLUDE_DIR and *_LIBRARY entries in the 'Cache Values' list. Click the Configure button. You will be prompted for the type of makefile that will be generated. Select Visual Studio 8 2005 and click OK. All being well, configuration should complete without errors. If there are errors, it is usually due to an incorrect path to a header or library directory. Failed items will be shown in red in the list. Once configuration completes without error, click OK to generate the solution and project files. With Visual Studio 2005, open the qgis.sln file that will have been created in the Build directory you created earlier. Build the ALL_BUILD project. This will build all the QGIS binaries along with all the plugins. Install QGIS by building the INSTALL project. By default this will install to c:\Program Files\qgis (this can be changed by changing the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable in CMake). You will also either need to add all the dependency dlls to the QGIS install directory or add their respective directories to your PATH. 8. Building under Windows using MSVC Express ============================================ /!\ Note: Building under MSVC is still a work in progress. In particular the following dont work yet: python, grass, postgis connections. /!\ This section of the document is in draft form and is not ready to be used yet. Tim Sutton, 2007 8.1. System preparation ======================= I started with a clean XP install with Service Pack 2 and all patches applied. I have already compiled all the dependencies you need for gdal, expat etc, so this tutorial wont cover compiling those from source too. Since compiling these dependencies was a somewhat painful task I hope my precompiled libs will be adequate. If not I suggest you consult the individual projects for specific build documentation and support. Lets go over the process in a nutshell before we begin: * Install XP (I used a Parallels virtual machine) * Install the premade libraries archive I have made for you * Install Visual Studio Express 2005 sp1 * Install the Microsoft Platform SDK * Install command line subversion client * Install library dependencies bundle * Install Qt 4.3.2 * Check out QGIS sources * Compile QGIS * Create setup.exe installer for QGIS 8.2. Install the libraries archive ================================== Half of the point of this section of the MSVC setup procedure is to make things as simple as possible for you. To that end I have prepared an archive that includes all dependencies needed to build QGIS except Qt (which we will build further down). Fetch the archive from: http://qgis.org/uploadfiles/msvc/qgis_msvc_deps_except_qt4.zip Create the following directory structure: c:\dev\cpp\ And then extract the libraries archive into a subdirectory of the above directory so that you end up with: c:\dev\cpp\qgislibs-release /!\ Note that you are not obliged to use this directory layout, but you should adjust any instructions that follow if you plan to do things differently. 8.3. Install Visual Studio Express 2005 ======================================= First thing we need to get is MSVC Express from here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa975050.aspx The page is really confusing so dont feel bad if you cant actually find the download at first! There are six coloured blocks on the page for the various studio family members (vb / c# / j# etc). Simply choose your language under the 'select your language' combo under the yellow C++ block, and your download will begin. Under internet explorer I had to disable popup blocking for the download to be able to commence. Once the setup commences you will be prompted with various options. Here is what I chose : * Send useage information to Microsoft (No) * Install options: * Graphical IDE (Yes) * Microsoft MSDN Express Edition (No) * Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition (No) * Install to folder: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\ (default) It will need to download around 90mb of installation files and reports that the install will consume 554mb of disk space. 8.4. Install Microsoft Platform SDK2 ==================================== Go to this page: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa700755.aspx Start by using the link provided on the above page to download and install the platform SDK2. The actual SDK download page is once again a bit confusing since the links for downloading are hidden amongst a bunch of other links. Basically look for these three links with their associated 'Download' buttons and choose the correct link for your platform: PSDK-amd64.exe 1.2 MB Download PSDK-ia64.exe 1.3 MB Download PSDK-x86.exe 1.2 MB Download When you install make sure to choose 'custom install'. These instructions assume you are installing into the default path of: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\ We will go for the minimal install that will give us a working environment, so on the custom installation screen I made the following choices: Configuration Options + Register Environmental Variables (Yes) Microsoft Windows Core SDK + Tools (Yes) + Tools (AMD 64 Bit) (No unless this applies) + Tools (Intel 64 Bit) (No unless this applies) + Build Environment + Build Environment (AMD 64 Bit) (No unless this applies) + Build Environment (Intel 64 Bit) (No unless this applies) + Build Environment (x86 32 Bit) (Yes) + Documentation (No) + Redistributable Components (Yes) + Sample Code (No) + Source Code (No) + AMD 64 Source (No) + Intel 64 Source (No) Microsoft Web Workshop (Yes) (needed for shlwapi.h) + Build Environment (Yes) + Documentation (No) + Sample Code (No) + Tools (No) Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) SDK (No) Microsoft Data Access Services (MDAC) SDK (Yes) (needed by GDAL for odbc) + Tools + Tools (AMD 64 Bit) (No) + Tools (AMD 64 Bit) (No) + Tools (x86 32 Bit) (Yes) + Build Environment + Tools (AMD 64 Bit) (No) + Tools (AMD 64 Bit) (No) + Tools (x86 32 Bit) (Yes) + Documentation (No) + Sample Code (No) Microsodt Installer SDK (No) Microsoft Table PC SDK (No) Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (No) Microsoft DirectShow SDK (No) Microsoft Media Services SDK (No) Debuggin Tools for Windows (Yes) /!\ Note that you can always come back later to add extra bits if you like. /!\ Note that installing the SDK requires validation with the Microsoft Genuine Advantage application. Some people have a philosophical objection to installing this software on their computers. If you are one of them you should probably consider using the MINGW build instructions described elsewhere in this document. The SDK installs a directory called C:\Office10 Which you can safely remove. After the SDK is installed, follow the remaining notes on the page link above to get your MSVC Express environment configured correctly. For your convenience, these are summarised again below, and I have added a couple more paths that I discovered were needed: 1) open Visual Studio Express IDE 2) Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories 3) Add: Executable files: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Bin Include files: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include\atl C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include\mfc Library files: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Lib 4) Close MSVC Express IDE 5) Open the following file with notepad: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCProjectDefaults\corewin_express.vsprops and change the property: AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib" To read: AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib" The notes go on to show how to build a mswin32 application which you can try if you like - I'm not going to recover that here. 8.5. Edit your vsvars ===================== Backup your vsvars32.bat file in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools and replace it with this one: @SET VSINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8 @SET VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC @SET FrameworkDir=C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework @SET FrameworkVersion=v2.0.50727 @SET FrameworkSDKDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0 @if "%VSINSTALLDIR%"=="" goto error_no_VSINSTALLDIR @if "%VCINSTALLDIR%"=="" goto error_no_VCINSTALLDIR @echo Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 x86 tools. @rem @rem Root of Visual Studio IDE installed files. @rem @set DevEnvDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE @set PATH=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCPackages;%PATH% @rem added by Tim @set PATH=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Bin;%PATH% @set INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\INCLUDE;%INCLUDE% @rem added by Tim @set INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include;%INCLUDE% @set INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include\mfc;%INCLUDE% @set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;C:\dev\cpp\qgislibs-release\include\postgresql @set LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\lib;%LIB% @rem added by Tim @set LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Lib;%LIB% @set LIB=%LIB%;C:\dev\cpp\qgislibs-release\lib @set LIBPATH=C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 @goto end :error_no_VSINSTALLDIR @echo ERROR: VSINSTALLDIR variable is not set. @goto end :error_no_VCINSTALLDIR @echo ERROR: VCINSTALLDIR variable is not set. @goto end :end 8.6. Environment Variables ========================== Right click on 'My computer' then select the 'Advanced' tab. Click environment variables and create or augment the following '''System''' variables (if they dont already exist): Variable Name: Value: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDITOR vim INCLUDE C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include\. LIB C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Lib\. LIB_DIR C:\dev\cpp\qgislibs-release PATH C:\Program Files\CMake 2.4\bin; %SystemRoot%\system32; %SystemRoot%; %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem; C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Bin\.; C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Bin\WinNT\; C:\Program Files\svn\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin; C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE; "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools"; c:\Qt\4.3.2\bin; "C:\Program Files\PuTTY" QTDIR c:\Qt\4.3.2 SVN_SSH "C:\\Program Files\\PuTTY\\plink.exe" 8.7. Building Qt4.3.2 ===================== You need a minimum of Qt 4.3.2 here since this is the first version to officially support building the open source version of Qt for windows under MSVC. Download Qt 4.x.x source for windows from http:\\www.trolltech.com Unpack the source to c:\Qt\4.x.x\ 8.7.1. Compile Qt ================= Open the Visual Studio C++ command line and cd to c:\Qt\4.x.x where you extracted the source and enter: configure -platform win32-msvc2005 nmake nmake install Add -qt-sql-odbc -qt-sql-psql to the configure line if your want odbc and PostgreSQL support build into Qt. /!\ Note: For me in some cases I got a build error on qscreenshot.pro. If you are only interested in having the libraries needed for building Qt apps, you can probably ignore that. Just check in c:\Qt\4.3.2\bin to check all dlls and helper apps (assistant etc) have been made. 8.7.2. Configure Visual C++ to use Qt ===================================== After building configure the Visual Studio Express IDE to use Qt: 1) open Visual Studio Express IDE 2) Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories 3) Add: Executable files: $(QTDIR)\bin Include files: $(QTDIR)\include $(QTDIR)\include\Qt $(QTDIR)\include\QtCore $(QTDIR)\include\QtGui $(QTDIR)\include\QtNetwork $(QTDIR)\include\QtSvg $(QTDIR)\include\QtXml $(QTDIR)\include\Qt3Support $(LIB_DIR)\include (needed during qgis compile to find stdint.h and unistd.h) Library files: $(QTDIR)\lib Source Files: $(QTDIR)\src Hint: You can also add QString = t=data, su>, size=size, i> to AutoExp.DAT in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Packages\Debugger before [Visualizer] That way the Debugger will show the contents of QString when you point at or watch a variable in the debugger. There are probably much more additions - feel free to add some - I just needed QString and took the first hit in google I could find. 8.8. Install Python =================== Download http://python.org/ftp/python/2.5.1/python-2.5.1.msi and install it. 8.9. Install SIP ================ Download http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/sip4/sip-4.7.1.zip and extract it into your c:\dev\cpp directory. From a Visual C++ command line cd to the directory where you extract SIP and run: c:\python25\python configure.py -p win32-msvc2005 nmake nmake install 8.10. Install PyQt4 =================== Download http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/PyQt4/GPL/PyQt-win-gpl-4.3.1.zip and extract it into your c:\dev\cpp directory. From a Visual C++ command line cd to the directory where you extracted PyQt4 and run: c:\python25\python configure.py -p win32-msvc2005 nmake nmake install ```` == Install CMake == Download and install cmake 2.4.7 or better, making sure to enable the option Update path for all users == Install Subversion == You '''must''' install the command line version if you want the CMake svn scripts to work. Its a bit tricky to find the correct version on the subversion download site as they have som misleadingly named similar downloads. Easiest is to just get this file: http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/1.4.5-win32/apache-2.2/svn-win32-1.4.5.zip Extract the zip file to C:\Program Files\svn And then add C:\Program Files\svn\bin To your path. == Initial SVN Check out == Open a cmd.exe window and do: cd \ cd dev cd cpp svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/trunk/qgis At this point you will probably get a message like this: C:\dev\cpp>svn co https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/trunk/qgis Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.qgis.org:443': - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! Certificate information: - Hostname: svn.qgis.org - Valid: from Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:30:47 GMT until Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:30:47 GMT - Issuer: Developer Team, Quantum GIS, Anchorage, Alaska, US - Fingerprint: 2f:cd:f1:5a:c7:64:da:2b:d1:34:a5:20:c6:15:67:28:33:ea:7a:9b (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? Press 'p' to accept and the svn checkout will commence. == Create Makefiles using cmakesetup.exe == I wont be giving a detailed description of the build process, because the process is explained in the first section (where you manually build all dependencies) of the windows build notes in this document. Just skip past the parts where you need to build GDAL etc, since this simplified install process does all the dependency provisioning for you. cd qgis mkdir build cd build cmakesetup .. Cmakesetup should find all dependencies for you automatically (it uses the LIB_DIR environment to find them all in c:\dev\cpp\qgislibs-release). Press configure again after the cmakesetup gui appears and when all the red fields are gone, and you have made any personalisations to the setup, press ok to close the cmake gui. Now open Visual Studio Express and do: File -> Open -> Project / Solution Now open the cmake generated QGIS solution which should be in : c:\dev\cpp\qgis\build\qgisX.X.X.sln Where X.X.X represents the current version number of QGIS. Currently I have only made release built dependencies for QGIS (debug versions will follow in future), so you need to be sure to select 'Release' from the solution configurations toolbar. Next right click on ALL_BUILD in the solution browser, and then choose build. Once the build completes right click on INSTALL in the solution browser and choose build. This will by default install qgis into c:\program files\qgisX.X.X. == Running and packaging == To run QGIS you need to at the minimum copy the dlls from c:\dev\cpp\qgislibs-release\bin into the c:\program files\qgisX.X.X directory. = Authors and Acknowledgments = The following people have contributed to this document: - Windows MINGW Section - Tim Sutton, Godofredo Contreras 2006 - CMake additions Magnus Homann 2007 - Python additions Martin Dobias 2007 - With thanks to Tisham Dhar for preparing the initial msys environment - Windows MSVC Section (Detailed install) - David Willis 2007 - MSVC install additions Tim Sutton 2007 - PostgreSQL, Qt compile, SIP, Python, AutoExp additions Juergen Fischer 2007 - Windows MSVC Section (Simplified install) - Tim Sutton 2007 - Juergen Fischer 2007 - OSX Section - Tim Sutton, 2007 - With special thanks to Tom Elwertowski and William Kyngesburye - GNU/Linux Section - Tim Sutton 2006