Building, installing and using

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Ivailo Monev edited this page Aug 6, 2016 · 255 revisions

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Building

Make use of the toolchain files
Learn how to take advantage of the flexible build system
If size matters build with MinSizeRel, LTO and no exceptions
Create packages via cpack or make package
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Installing

On Windows create NSIS package and use it
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Using

Watch out for tools/scripts that alter environmental variables (e.g. sudo) such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH
On Windows Katie_DIR must point to the cmake subdirectory of the Katie installation path (e.g. C:\Program Files\Katie\cmake) otherwise it will not be found by applications that use CMake and want to build against Katie
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Katie is part of the Katana Desktop Environment project.