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Last updated: 14 Dec 2005

Table of Contents    How to set compile-time options?      Available options     Example how to compile Kexi from svn     Unsermake'ing it    Notes for developers      Defines

How to set compile-time options?

Note: We are no longer using $KEXI_OPTIONS environment directory. This caused a problem for unsermake. Now, configure options are used instead.

Available options

• Stable options (enabled by default, if relevant libraries are found)
  • --enable-mysql
  • --enable-pgsql
• Experimental options (disabled by default)
  • --enable-kexi-reports
  • --enable-scripting (enable the scripting plugin. Needs koffice/libs/kross to be compiled and installed.

Note: Please always use --enable-debug=full for testing, as this will produce better backtraces if Kexi crashes.

Example how to compile Kexi from svn

If you have unsermake, see the next section.

 svn co -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/koffice/ kexi-svn
 cd kexi-svn
 svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.4/kde-common/admin
 svn up kexi
 svn up -N lib
 svn up lib/koproperty
 svn up lib/kross
 svn up lib/kofficecore
 mkdir lib/{kformula,kofficeui,kopainter,koscript,kotext,kwmf,store}
 make -f Makefile.cvs
 ./configure --enale-scripting \
             --enable-reports \
             --enable-debug=full
 make
 make install

Note: 'make -f Makefile.cvs' is only needed to execute once, 'configure' and then make, can be run many times.

Unsermake'ing it

This seems to be the best way to build Kexi on it's own, but you need Unsermake for it to work properly.

 svn co -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/koffice/ kexi-svn
 cd kexi-svn
 svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.4/kde-common/admin
 svn up kexi
 svn up -N lib
 svn up lib/koproperty
 svn up lib/kross
 svn up lib/kofficecore
 make -f Makefile.cvs
 ./configure --enable-scripting \
             --enable-reports \
             --enable-debug=full
 unsermake
 unsermake install

Notes for developers ^ toc

Defines

Some of above configure options, if set to true, have defines assigned, so you can check their existence in your code.

• --enable-kexi-reports --> KEXI_REPORTS_SUPPORT
• --enable-scripting --> KEXI_SCRIPTS_SUPPORT

Example:

 #ifdef KEXI_REPORTS_SUPPORT
 //some code depending on reports
 #endif