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Setup build environment

We use a modern set of tools like CMake and Qt6 to create ScreenPlay. The setup is mostly automated. To get an overview of ScreenPlays architecture, see Project Architecture.

  1. Download and install the tools for your platform first:
    1. Setp for Windows
    2. Setp for Linux
    3. Setp for MacOS
  2. Then see the instruction on how to compile

Windows

  1. Download and install:
  2. Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 Download
    1. Make sure you have the component Desktop development with C++ installed
  3. Python 3.11+ and select Add to Path during the installation. Download
  4. Optional if you do not have tools like git or cmake installed, we recommend Chocolatey:
    1. Chocolatey via Powershell (Administrator) Download
    2. Run choco.exe install git vscode cmake --installargs 'ADD_CMAKE_TO_PATH=System' -y

Linux

Install dependencies for Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install build-essential git gpg ffmpeg mesa-common-dev libxkbcommon-* libfontconfig curl zip unzip tar cmake pkg-config apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg software-properties-common wget software-properties-common python3 python3-pip  libgl1-mesa-dev lld ninja-build qml-module-qt-websockets qtwebengine5-* -y

Only needed if we want x11 support

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev xserver-xorg-dev xorg-dev

MacOS

  1. Install XCode 14+ , open and restart your device.
  2. Install brew that is needed by some third party vcpkg packages. Do not forget to add brew to your path as outlined at the on of the installation!
    • brew install pkg-config git llvm cmake

Clone ScreenPlay

git clone https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay.git ScreenPlay/ScreenPlay

Downloading dependencies is 100% automated. Simply run the setup.py script from the Tools folder:

cd Tools
# Windows defaults to python, linux and macOS uses python3!
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
# This scrit will:
# 1. Downloads `Qt` and `QtCreator`
# 2. Create a `vcpkg` folder for dependencies
# 3. Compiles the dependencies
# 4. Downloads ffmpeg
python setup.py

Compile

Now you can either use VSCode or QtCreator:

Option 1 VSCode

  1. Open VSCode
  2. Install the recommended extentions:
    1. C/C++ for Visual Studio Code
    2. CMake Tools
  3. Press: CTRL + SHIFT + P for every command:
    1. CMake: Select Configure Preset. Select one of the listed presets like MSVC SP Qt 6.5.0 Debug
  4. Press F7 to Compile and F5 to run!

Option 2 QtCreator

  1. Open QtCreator at:
    1. Windows: ..\aqt\Tools\QtCreator\bin\qtcreator.exe
    2. Linux: ../aqt/Tools/QtCreator/bin/qtcreator
    3. MacOS: ../aqt/Qt Creator
  2. Select the imported temporary kit like MSVC SP Qt 6.5.0 Debug
  3. Press CTRL + R to compile and run!

Developer docs

We use qdoc to generate documentation.

qdoc.exe configWindows.qdocconf

If you have installed Qt in a different directory, change the path to your Qt location.

Some useful links:

Last update: March 30, 2023 15:43:09