---- About LibreCAD ---- LibreCAD is a 2D CAD drawing tool based on the community edition of QCad (www.qcad.org). LibreCAD has been re-structured and ported to qt4 and works natively cross platform between OSX, Windows and Linux. See www.librecad.org ---- UNIX and OSX users ---- Unzip or checkout a version of LibreCAD into a directory. CD into that directory and follow these instructions: # Build makefile and compile LibreCAD qmake make ---- Ubuntu/Debian users ---- Make sure you have the qt-4 SDK installed Install the qt4 SDK by executing the following commands: $ sudo apt-get install g++ gcc make git-core libqt4-dev qt4-qmake libqt4-qt3support libqt4-help qt4-dev-tools libboost-all-dev Alternatively, you make sure you have deb-src lines enabled in your sources.list file, and run, $ sudo apt-get build-dep librecad For SVN see elso : http://www.librecad.org/2010/10/debian-64-bit-and-ubuntu-compile-how-to/ For git see also: http://librecad.org/cms/home/from-source/linux.html NOTE 1: On systems (Ubuntu??) You might need to run qmake-qt4 instead of just qmake ---- Windows Users ---- Download a copy of QT SDk from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/ After installation, start qtCreator and load LibreCAD.pro, from the the build menu select 'Build All' ----- Ubuntu Lucid gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) Using Qt version 4.6.2 in /usr/lib ----- (RVT) OSX 10.5.8 i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493) Using Qt version 4.6.3 in /opt/local/libexec/qt4-mac/lib ----- (RVT) Debian 5.0.3 gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2 Using Qt version 4.4.3 in /usr/lib ----- (RVT) Windows XP Using Qt version 4.7.0