Hello! Ever since the initial LXDE-Qt announcement I've been very excited to try out a new Qt-based DE. I recently decided to check it out using the instructions in the wiki ([1]) and being the lazy ass I am, I was a bit scared by the long list of manual steps to perform.
Needless to say, I instantly set out on a crusade to automate this process for both my own and others' sake. Having tinkered with GNOME in the past, I thought of trying out their JHBuild [2] utility for automating the LXDE build process. (Hopefully this is not too blasphemous). If it works for GNOME's countless modules and X.org [3], surely it must be good enough for LXDE too! Compared to the build_all.sh script included in the LXDE repositories JHBuild offers many advantages such as inter-module dependency handling, automation of installation prefixes, automatic environment variables for running the compiled binaries, and more. It also allows for working with individual modules at a time instead of compiling everything. Obviously it is also far less error-prone. And thus, I present to you the fruits of my labor. Assuming that all the development compilers, headers and libraries are installed on your machine, you can now build the entire LXDE-Qt codebase (libraries, apps, etc.) by installing JHBuild and running the following commands: $ git clone https://github.com/veeti/lxdeqt-jhbuild.git $ cd lxdeqt-jhbuild $ jhbuild -f jhbuildrc JHBuild will then clone every module, build them and install them under a prefix. (The default in the configuration I've created is install/ under the same directory as the jhbuildrc config file. No sudo required!) You can also build individual modules, such as: $ jhbuild -f jhbuildrc build pcmanfm-qt And run them: $ jhbuild -f jhbuildrc run install/bin/pcmanfm-qt Check out the README at https://github.com/veeti/lxdeqt-jhbuild for more details. To accomplish this, I had to fork some of the modules (liblxqt, liblxqt-mount, libsysstat, libfm, lxqt-globalkeys and pcmanfm-qt) to play nice with the de-facto standard LIB_INSTALL_DIR and INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR CMake attributes. I also had to modify the autotools-based modules to allow autogen.sh from out of the tree and to configure automatically (since JHBuild expects that for some reason beyond my understanding). Anyway, it would be great if the small build changes I've made in my forked repositories could be pulled in. Would it be fine to submit pull requests at GitHub for them? And of course, please try this automagic build stuff out and tell me how it goes! (Hopefully well.) [1] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Build_LXDE-Qt_From_Source [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Jhbuild [3] http://www.x.org/wiki/JhBuildInstructions/ (TLDR: Install JHBuild. Clone my repository. Run the command. Use LXDE-Qt.) --- Thanks, Veeti
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