The first positional parameter is the path to the source directory which contains a file called CMakeLists.txt. A self-explanatory name is always a good one.Īfter changing the working directory to the just created build directory the cmake command configures the build environment and creates the makefiles. The next step is to create the out-of-source-build directory. Since no destination directory is specified a directory with the name of the repository is created.
The first command clones the Albert git repository to the local file system. Lets go through them and clarify what they do. albert -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX =/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE =Debug
A T LAUNCHER INSTALL
To configure, build and install run the following commands:Ĭmake. If the optional dependency of a plugin is not available at runtime it will refuse to load the core application will run fine though. Ubuntu, dev packages are needed at compile time but at runtime normal packages are sufficient. On distributions that do not differentiate between these kinds of packages, basically every package is a dev package. Normal packages are stripped down to the shared libraries. Dev packages usually contain the header files and static libraries in addition to the shared libraries. Some distributions ship libraries as single packages while others ship a normal package and a *-dev package. Users may therefore encounter linkage errors and have to explicitly install the missing dependencies.Īnother concern is the difference between compile time and runtime dependencies. Additionally, Elementary OS - which builds on Ubuntu - does not install optional dependencies.
A T LAUNCHER DRIVER
Ubuntu is known to split the SQL driver submodules into separate packages. Problems may arise with distributions that split submodules into optional dependencies. Check the docker files for an up to date list of dependencies. To build Albert from sources you will need CMake, a C++ compiler supporting at least the C++14 standard, and the Qt toolkit.įurther the plugins may introduce optional dependencies, e.g the calculator plugin needs the muparser library and the QMLBoxModel frontend needs the QtDeclarative library. The goal is to be always compatible with the latest Ubuntu LTS release. Before you can start building Albert you need some libraries. The build process is trivial, but you have to manage the dependencies on your own. Building from sources is the least convenient, but most flexible way. You will find the precompiled packages here. For all other cases use the methods above. This is an option if you just want to test Albert or if you do not want to get rolling updates, but rather stay with a particular version instead. Depending on your package manager this step varies. Keep in mind that the key has an expiration date and you have to repeat this process every few years. Finally the Albert package is public in the repos of OBS, and can be pulled by package managers.īefore you can use this repo you have to add a keyfile to your package manager, which is used to verify the integrity of the packages it later receives.
Whenever GitHub receives a tag, a webhook starts the compilation, packaging and publishing for several distributions on OBS. OBS is a platform designed to compile packages for multiple Linux distributions and simplifies the packaging process, so developers can more easily package a single program for many distributions. Using official albert repositoriesįor all other distros or simply if you want to receive updates as soon as they are pushed on github, you can use the prebuilt binaries hosted at Open Build Service. Using a package manager is highly recommended, since it is less error prone and the necessary dependencies are pulled automatically.
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