plugin bilding problem

[qgib]

Author Name: suba - (suba -)
Original Redmine Issue: 544

Redmine category:build/install
Assignee: nobody -

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hi,
I hv tried creating new plugin to qgis by follwing steps
1.downloaded qgis 0.8 setup.exe
2.installed qgis
3.run plugin_bulder.pl script
4.created it...but to build it i should run autogen.sh,configure,make
5.before that there must be qgis.m4 in share\aclocal directory as mentioned in tutorial...I DONT HAVE SUCH FILE(QGIS.M4).IS IT BECOZ OF THAT AM NT ABLE TO RUN AUTOGEN.SH...???????
should i download it seperately
my plaform is windows XP..any probs becoz of that?

[qgib]

Author Name: Martin Dobias (@wonder-sk)

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If you intend to do any development you need to download QGIS sources, not the binary installer

Using Linux is highly recommended as developers use it as primary platform and you'll get also less trouble when developping in linux.

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