Re: How to download the gui on the Mecurial repository and requirements

[Jacob Dawid]

Hello everyone,

I haven't participated in the project for a few weeks now, but I am definately not going to stop my work on the GUI. It has a few bugs, but the code is easy to maintain. You have to know that the GUI and octave use different build systems. The GUIs system uses the system's installed tools to retrieve to determine the location of the octave-headers. So if you want to build octave and the GUI, you would have to build octave, install octave and the start to build the GUI (or alternatively rewrite the *.pro so that it uses the previously compiled tools without installing them).

As for dependencies on Ubuntu, you need the packages libqscintilla2-dev and qt4-dev. Navigate to the gui folder and and type 'qmake-qt4', this will read the *.pro-file and generate Makefiles (qmake often works, too, but it is safe to officially emphasize to use qmake-qt4, since qmake can get confused when there are multiple version of Qt installed, which is a painful thing to unexperienced people). Then just run 'make' to build the application. You can also do './compile.sh' which simply executes these commands one after another.

After a successful build just run './start.sh'. The reason you need to do this is a bug that's not fixed yet. It's not clear why it appears, but you can "fix" it by setting the LANG-variable of the current terminal to en_US.UTF-8 before launching the application. Otherwise the terminal has some strange behaviour.

Best regards,

Jacob