Hi Richard, On Fri, 13. May 2011 at 17:30:37 +0200, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > - the INSTALL text seems more up to date than the instructions on > http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Building_QGIS_from_Source For example the INSTALL > text already mentions the GIT stuff etc Should we not delete the wiki page, > and for example just point to the INSTALL text?
ok, we update the wiki page now and then. > - I never used GIT on windows, but googled msysgit > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ which gives you a command line and I could > do: git clone https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS.git which worked... You could also have used cygwin - Windows is pretty useless without it anyway ;) > - packaging: > The packaging instructions are not clear to me. After compiling running it on > windows, how to package it on ubuntu (for a 'real' windows user). What's the > reason to not do it on windows itself? That is on Windows. cygwin, remember? ;) > - 32/64 bit > Just tested this on 32-bit XP. Which worked fine!! Not sure if this would > work on a 64 bit machine, or all links are then still working. It does. > - starting: after the install step in Visual Studio Express, all installed > successfully in 'Program Files', but double clicking the executable (the > windows way), I do not have Python stuff working. Using the cmake-start bat > file (which set's all path's) I have a fully working python/qgis. Does > somebody know what I have to copy/include/change to make the double clicking > work? Patch QGIS to include all the environment variables etc. the batch files set up. I'd stick with the batch file as that's easier to customize. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-20 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
