On Wednesday 29 May 2024 05:44:54 deloptes via tde-devels wrote: > J Leslie Turriff via tde-devels wrote: > > Heh. All of my skills are in the IBM mainframe arena. I know a teeny > > bit about C++ and make, but beyond that I'm clueless; but I'd like to > > learn, if only I could find a mentor. > > May be asking here is the best and fingers crossed to get someone to help. > I can share my experience, but I had already a background in C/C++. > Unfortunately as mentioned TDevelop tools are not fully working - I mean > the build functionality. May be someone can share the experience. > > What you need to know for the starter is > 1. C/C++ (introduction - there are good books also online) > 2. make and cmake, but some projects still use automake and outside of TDE > automake is widely used > 3. you need a build environment based on your preferences. > 4. go through some examples to get an idea how it works. > For example I wrote few years ago some examples how to use DBus > (dbus-1tqt) > https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/deloptes/dbus-1-tqt-example > This is pretty simple and does not need any automake or cmake. > The build is in the shell script - so you will find out how to compile > simple binary > There are also other examples on the WIKI > 5. in the repo there are the Debian build scripts by Michele, however he is > using another build system and I wrote my own build system based on make > files, but you are using OpenSUSE (RPMs), so might be not of any advantage > for you I have never used a "build environment," so I have no preferences. :-) Right now I use the jEdit text editor, which has some quasi-build-environment plugins, which I have not fooled with. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
