Building qStopMotion using MS Visual Studio Last Change: 2016-05-10 1. Preparation of the development environment ================================================================================ 1.1 Install the Visual Studio 2013 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Download the "Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition" * This package including the Visual Studio 2010 command line tools. * Install in the default installation directory (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0). - Switch off all optional features - Start the IDE and search for updates * Add the binary directory to the path variable (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin\). 1.2 Install the Windows SDK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Download the "Windows Software Development Kit for Windows 8.1" * This package including the debugging tools for windows. * Install in the default installation directory (C:\Program Files\Windows Kits\v8.1). 1.3 Qt5 for Windows and Visual Studio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Download Qt runtime 5.5.x for Windows 64-bit (VS 2013) from qt-project.com/downloads * Install in the Directory C:\Tools\Qt\... * Qt need write permissions to this directory during compilation and linking. * Add the binary directory to the path variable (e.g. C:\Tools\Qt\Qt5.5.1\bin\). * Set the environment variable 'Qt5_DIR' to 'C:\Tools\Qt\Qt5.5.1\5.5\msvc2013_64\' 1.4 CMake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Download CMake >= 3.3.2 (32bit) from "http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html" * Install in the default installation directory. * Add CMake to the system PATH for all users. * Create a start script for CMake (C:\Tools\cmakestart.bat) rem Set the Visual Studion 10 environment variables call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" rem Start CMake "C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake 2.8\bin\cmake-gui.exe" * Create a shortcut to the start script. 1.5 Mercurial SCM (Developers only) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Download Mercurial or TortoiseHG with Mercurial from "http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads" * Install in the default installation directory. 1.6 NSIS 2.46 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Download NSIS from "http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page" * Install in the default installation directory. 2. Access to the sources of qStopMotion ================================================================================ 2.1 Download the sources (last release of qStopMotion) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Downoad qstopmotion--Source.zip or qstopmotion--Source.tar.Z from http://sourceforge.net/projects/qstopmotion/files/ 2.2 Anonymous read only access to the repository (latest developer version) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/qstopmotion/code qstopmotion 2.3 Developer access to the repository (read and write access) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.3.1 Create a Source Forge account * Create a Source Forge account on https://sourceforge.net/user/registration * Add your account to the qStopMotion developers on http://sourceforge.net/projects/qstopmotion 2.3.2 Create a .hgrc file * Create a .hgrc file in your home directory * Content of the file: [ui] username = Your Name [auth] qstopmotion.prefix = https://hg.code.sf.net/p/qstopmotion/code qstopmotion.username = qstopmotion.password = 2.3.3 Create a local repository * hg clone https://hg.code.sf.net/p/qstopmotion/code qstopmotion 3. Building qStopMotion ================================================================================ 3.1 Add the ffmpeg encoder to the sources directory -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Download the latest static version from http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ * Unpack the 7z file to the qstopmotion directory * Rename the ffmpeg directory to 'ffmpeg' 3.2 Add the qtruntime to the sources directory -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Create a new directory qtruntime in the source directory * Copy QtCore4.dll, QtGui4.dll and QtXml.dll from Qt installation bin directory to the new qtruntime directory * Copy QtCored4.dll, QtGuid4.dll and QtXmld.dll from Qt installation bin directory to the new qtruntime directory * Copy the directory imageformats from Qt installation plugins directory to the new qtruntime directory 3.3 Create the Visual Studio Solution -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Start the CMake GUI using the shortcut to the start script. * Select the directory with the cmakelist.txt file * Select the destination directory * Press the configure button * Select the generator "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" * Press the generate button 3.4 Build the application -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Start MS Visual Studio * Open the new created solution file (qstopmotion.sln) * Activate the project "qstopmotion" as the active project * Build | Build Solution * Locking for error and warning messages 4. Installation ================================================================================ * Start MS Visual Studio with a administrator account (The problem is to create the dircorys in the windows program files directory) * Open the solution file (qstopmotion.sln) * Build the project "INSTALL" 5. Starting qStopMotion ================================================================================ * Select the video source * Have fun.