[bt-devel] Newbie help please!

[Thomas J. Philpot]

For starters, you might want to check out the KDE Developer's Tutorials on

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/index.html

There's a tutorial on how to develop for KDE (with some small example) programs.
I suggest you start with Daniel Marjamaki's KDE tutorial, it talks about how to
compile on *nix (g++ for c++ programs, gcc for c).

Just off the top of my head, here are some useful commands

-o  filename  = renames the output file
-g            = enables debugging
-lfoo         = links the libfoo library to your code
-Iincludedir  = adds includedir to your include path
-Llibdir      = adds libdir to your linking path

You'll probably used these 90% of the time if you have to compile by hand.
With most big projects though, there are Makefiles distributed with the
program,  and all you have to do is something like ./configure;make;make
install to  get the program up and running.  Another peice of advice, get
familar with KDevelop.  It'll help you tremendously...

I'm going to study for finals now ;)   Two left...

Tom

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> That's why I'm asking, I don't even know how to compile a program in Unix!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris Marsh
> Analyst Programmer
> Hansen Corporation
> Ph: 	(03) 9843 8438
> Fax:	(03) 9843 8590
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Thomas J. Philpot [SMTP:tjphilpot@ou.edu]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, May 03, 2000 5:08 PM
> > To:	bt-devel@crosswire.org
> > Subject:	Re: [bt-devel] Newbie help please!
> > 
> > Chris,
> > 
> > 	The best advice I can give you is read this list and don't be afraid
> > to ask questions.   The project is in need of more developers and any help
> > would
> > be appreciated.
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm new to this list and would dearly love to start doing some work on
> > > Bibletime.  Problem is, I haven't done any C or C++ work since school
> > (2+
> > > years ago), as I currently do PL/SQL on Oracle.  Also, I haven't yet
> > done
> > > ANY development work on any Unix box, including Linux.
> > > 
> > > So, my question is, where do I start?  I have used CVS, although in the
> > > past.  Any doco's, hint's, tips, HOWTO's etc would be gratefully
> > received.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Chris Marsh
> > > Analyst Programmer
> > > Hansen Corporation
> > > Ph: 	(03) 9843 8438
> > > Fax:	(03) 9843 8590