Linux build issues

[wittend]

I do not usually use QT, and am not particularly familiar with the finer points of OT development. I prefer to use Mint 18.3 (Sarah) Cinnamon on Ubuntu Xenial.

I first attempted to build according to the instructions on in the README.md. I was unable to locate libqt5charts5-dev (or libqt5charts5) for retrieval. It is not in the APT repository, and I don't know where to find it elsewhere.

Fortunately (sort of) I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver on a couple of machines for the moment. I was able to build it successfully there..

I also wondered if the command line "../run ./vna_qt" is always required to run the software? It might be nicer to have a standalone executable.

Dave

[xaxaxa]

I recall qtcharts is only included in newer debian releases (stretch or higher) which means ubuntu/mint releases based on older debian won't have it; internally we compile QT from source in order to support older distros.
./run is required because it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the compiled libraries (libxavna) in the source tree; to compile a standalone binary you would use deploy_linux.sh (make sure you edit env.cfg and set the correct paths to qt etc first) which builds an appimage.

[wittend]

Thanks!

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