GCompris HACKING Official repository ------------------- The official repository requires a KDE developer account, we will ask regular contributors to get an account and work on the KDE repository. http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=gcompris.git For new developers and those interested only in smaller contributions use the GitHub repository. Source code from GitHub ----------------------- Checkout the source code by cloning it from GitHub git clone git://github.com/gcompris/GCompris-qt.git If you want to have a personal fork, in order to commit occasional patches, fork it on GitHub then clone your fork git clone git@github.com:/GCompris-qt.git When asking for a pull request, create a new topic branch and commit your changes there then open a pull request to gcompris-qt repository on GitHub. See GitHub's documentation for more information. https://help.github.com/categories/collaborating/ Dependencies ------------ In order to be able to compile GCompris the following Qt5 dependencies need to be installed Qt 5 Development Defaults Qt 5 qmake Qt Creator Qt Linguist Tools Qt Core Qt Graphical Effects QML Module Qt Gui Qt Multimedia Qt Multimedia QML Module Qt Network Qt Qml Qt Quick Qt Svg Qt Xml Qt XmlPatterns Installing dependencies on a Debian based systems can be done like this: sudo aptitude install libqt5svg5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev \ qml-module-qtmultimedia qt5-default \ qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects qt5-qmake qtcreator \ qtdeclarative5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev \ qtmultimedia5-dev qtquick1-5-dev qttools5-dev \ qttools5-dev-tools libqt5multimedia5-plugins \ qml-module-qtsensors libqt5quickparticles5 \ qml-module-qtquick2 qml-module-qtquick-particles2 \ libqt5sensors5-dev libqt5sensors5 To build for Android, Qt 5 AndroidExtras also needs to be installed. Build ----- Start QtCreator and select Open Project and open CMakeLists.txt in the gcompris-qt root directory. Follow the wizard instructions. Use the buttons on the lower left side to build, run, and debug GCompris.