Re: Building KDE (phonon-vlc) fails

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 10:18:42AM +0100, Frederik Schwarzer wrote: > Hi, > > please forgive my ignorance. It has been ages since I last built KDE from > sources. > > Using kdesrc-build, the phonon-vlc package fails on cmake with the following > error: > -- Checking for module 'libvlc' >

Re: Contributing to KDE is hard because of its build architecture

Thanks a lot everyone for replies. On 09.12.2018 20:54, Nate Graham wrote: On 12/9/18 10:51 AM, Martin Flöser wrote: Am 2018-12-09 16:41, schrieb Konstantin Kharlamov: Official way of building dependencies is using kdesrc-build. It has multiple problems: Hi Konstantin, sorry for your bad e

Re: Contributing to KDE is hard because of its build architecture

Sorry to hear about your bad experience. We have an ongoing initiative to ease the process of getting involved [0] On 12/9/18 10:51 AM, Martin Flöser wrote: > > sorry for your bad experienced, but I think it would have been much > easier. Assuming you are on a Debian based distribution the st

Re: Contributing to KDE is hard because of its build architecture

On 12/9/18 10:51 AM, Martin Flöser wrote: Am 2018-12-09 16:41, schrieb Konstantin Kharlamov: Official way of building dependencies is using kdesrc-build. It has multiple problems: Hi Konstantin, sorry for your bad experienced, but I think it would have been much easier. Assuming you are on

Re: Contributing to KDE is hard because of its build architecture

Am 2018-12-09 16:41, schrieb Konstantin Kharlamov: Official way of building dependencies is using kdesrc-build. It has multiple problems: Hi Konstantin, sorry for your bad experienced, but I think it would have been much easier. Assuming you are on a Debian based distribution the steps shoul

Contributing to KDE is hard because of its build architecture

Please, don't take it as a rant, because I got over my frustraction a week ago, and just writing it in the hope to point out something that other developers might not see. I'm not using KDE myself (i3wm here), but 2 weeks ago I stepped into my never-ending journey of trying to use KMail, faile

KDE Frameworks 5.53.0 released

09th December 2018. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.53.0. KDE Frameworks are 79 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the Fram

Building KDE (phonon-vlc) fails

Hi, please forgive my ignorance. It has been ages since I last built KDE from sources. Using kdesrc-build, the phonon-vlc package fails on cmake with the following error: -- Checking for module 'libvlc' -- Found libvlc, version 3.0.4 CMake Error at cmake/FindLIBVLC.cmake:106 (mess