Howto build network manager plasmoid?

[edgue]

Hi there,

I asked the developper for some updates for the network plasmoid ...
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191120
and yeah, he made a change ... but he cant test it.

So I want to help. I installed the kdebase-dev package;
and i managed to checkout the corresponding sources.
(svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/networkmanager)

Now I ran 'cmake' within that directory ... and it tells me: all fine.
But when I do a "make" ... nothing happens.

I can do "make help" or "make clean" ... nice ... but well,
nothing is compiled or installed.

Any idea what I am doing wrong here?

[Rog131]

Re: Howto build network manager plasmoid?

Output messages would help


Generic how to:

Open konsole to the plasmoid directory (networkmanager ?)

mkdir -p builddir

cd builddir && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

Should tell:

...
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to:...

make

sudo make install

or a bit better:

sudo checkinstall

[edgue]

Re: Howto build network manager plasmoid?

I would paste output messages if there were any ;-(
OK, thats not exactly true.

~/svn/kde/networkmanager $ cd builddir && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
-- Found Qt-Version 4.5.0 (using /usr/bin/qmake)
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so
-- Phonon Version: 4.3.0
-- Found KDE 4.2 include dir: /usr/include
-- Found KDE 4.2 library dir: /usr/lib
-- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler
-- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- checking for one of the modules 'NetworkManager'
-- checking for one of the modules 'libnm-util'
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/xxx/svn/kde/networkmanager

Sounds good, but ...

~/svn/kde/networkmanager/builddir $ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
~/svn/kde/networkmanager/builddir $ cd ..
~/svn/kde/networkmanager $ make all
~/svn/kde/networkmanager $ make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

So - as I said: cmake tells me "all right" ... but make wont build no nothing.

[Rog131]

Re: Howto build network manager plasmoid?

This was with the: "Checked out revision 1010660."


Do you have the build-essential ?

build-essential

Informational list of build-essential packages
...
If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to build the
package.
...

KDE 4.2.4 (Jaunty)

The cmake is working fine: "-- Build files have been written to:..."
The make is just dying, no error messages.

Looking what are the build depencies from the plasma-widget-networkmanagement-0.1~svn1002781 /1/:

Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 7.0.50), cmake (>= 2.6.2), pkg-kde-tools (>= 0.2), quilt (>= 0.46-7~), libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0), kdelibs5-dev (>= 4:4.2.0), kdebase-workspace-dev (>= 4:4.2.98-0ubuntu), libknotificationitem-dev, network-manager-dev (>= 0.7.0), libnm-util-dev (>= 0.7.0)

Some of those are available from the Jaunty repositories, some are not !

Changing to the Karmic (KDE 4.3.0).


KDE 4.3.0 (Karmic)

The cmake is working fine: "-- Build files have been written to:..."
The make is just dying, no error messages.

=> Installing those depencies =>

The cmake is working fine: "-- Build files have been written to:..."
The make is working fine:

..
Linking CXX shared module ../lib/kded_networkmanagement.so
[100%] Built target kded_networkmanagement

With the KDE 4.3.0 (Karmic) this seems to compile.


/1/ > KNetworkManager svn 1002781 - Call for testing >> KubuntuPlasmaWidgetNetworkManager wiki >>> https://edge.launchpad.net/~jr/+archive/ppa

[edgue]

Re: Howto build network manager plasmoid?

Thanks for the update.

Not that I really have time for that; but maybe I could install Karmic on a different machine
and give it atry.

Or maybe I dare to upgrade my jaunty system to kde 4.3.

Exiting choices.

[edgue]

Re: Howto build network manager plasmoid?

For the curious:

Updating my kubuntu jaunty to kde 4.3 came with some hickups ... but now I like what I see.
But I was still not able to build the private fix.

So I installed kubuntu karma alpha 4 on a seperate partition ... and with all the information
that was given to me ... it finally compiled and installed.

Leap still not working; but at least I am now able to help testing.