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Re: Sigil

On Sunday, August 24, 2014 9:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:42:16 -0700 (PDT)
> Rusi Mody  wrote:

> > On Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at
> > > least for partial conversions and touchups. But if you haven't used
> > > Sigil for awhile, you might not be aware that it's really grown up
> > > in the past two years, to the point where it's a reasonable ePub
> > > authoring environment. 
> > Thanks for the info.
> > However compiling from source seems to be a major project
> > How are you installing?

> I'm glad you mentioned that, Rusi.

> The latest and greatest, 0.7.4, demands qt5. Ummm, no. Not on Wheezy,
> not now, at least.

> So I just downloaded 0.6.2, the last version that is satisfied with
> qt4.8, and compiled and installed it according to the instructions. 

> Here are some generalized tips for compiling 0.6.2 specifically:

> * Install cmake, 2.8.0 or better
> * You might need to install some -dev packages: errors will tell you
> * mkdir -p ~/sigil-0.6.2/src; cd ~/sigil-0.6.2; mkdir run; mkdir build
> * cd ~/sigil-0.6.2/build
> 	NOTE: This qualifies as a folder *outside* the source
> 	  distribution as discussed in INSTALL.txt
> * cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" \
>   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release $HOME/sigil-0.6.2/src

> * cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" \
>   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/sigil-0.6.2/src \
>   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release $HOME/sigil-0.6.2/run

> * make
> * make install

> Note that the preceding make install puts the executables in
> $HOME/sigil-0.6.2/run, which seems to be the "sigilesque" way of doing
> things. No sudo required on the make install, and deinstalling the
> whole thing is a matter of rm -rf $HOME/sigil-0.6.2/run.

> You access $HOME/sigil-0.6.2/run/bin/sigil with the following
> shellscript:

> =========================================
> #!/bin/bash
> $HOME/sigil-0.6.2/run/bin/sigil $@
> =========================================

> Obviously, if this is a sigil installation meant to serve many users,
> you'd probably leave out the cmake line that forced it to
> $HOME/sigil-0.6.2/run/, and do your make install as root.

> The instructions in INSTALL.txt aren't all that good. The phrase
> "/path/to/extracted/folder" is ambiguous and undefined, but it means
> the src directory. They tell you about changing the make install
> destination *after* telling you to make install, doohhhhh! By the way,
> you change the destination after a failed (because normal user can't
> write to /opt or whatever) make install, and do another make install,
> and it will work just fine.

> Like most Open Source problems, difficulty installing Sigil isn't
> defective code or defective packaging, it's defective documentation.

> Once you understand what INSTALL.txt is really saying, installing a
> Sigil requiring the qt version you already have is pretty easy.

Ok
I tried getting the latest (from git) and building.
[I am on testing]

It seems to have made it past 50% (69% to be exact -- see below)
The error seems to be a C++ error 
Below is make output (1)
Also a snippet of cmake (2)


$ make
[  4%] Built target tidyLib
[ 10%] Built target BoostParts
[ 11%] Built target minizip
[ 50%] Built target Xerces
[ 51%] Built target hunspell
[ 53%] Built target pcre
[ 53%] Built target XercesExtensions
[ 54%] Built target gccPCH_fc
[ 69%] Built target FlightCrew
[ 69%] Automoc for target sigil
[ 69%] Built target sigil_automoc
[ 69%] Building CXX object src/Sigil/CMakeFiles/sigil.dir/Dialogs/PluginRunner.cpp.o
In file included from /src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.cpp:18:0:
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.h: In constructor 'PluginRunner::PluginRunner(QString, TabManager*, QWidget*)':
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.h:113:13: warning: 'PluginRunner::m_pluginName' will be initialized after [-Wreorder]
     QString m_pluginName;
             ^
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.h:108:13: warning:   'QString PluginRunner::m_outputDir' [-Wreorder]
     QString m_outputDir;
             ^
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.cpp:29:1: warning:   when initialized here [-Wreorder]
 PluginRunner::PluginRunner(QString name, TabManager* tabMgr, QWidget * parent)
 ^
In file included from /src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.cpp:18:0:
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.h:126:9: warning: 'PluginRunner::m_xhtml_net_change' will be initialized after [-Wreorder]
     int m_xhtml_net_change;
         ^
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.h:102:18: warning:   'MainWindow* PluginRunner::m_mainWindow' [-Wreorder]
     MainWindow * m_mainWindow;
                  ^
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.cpp:29:1: warning:   when initialized here [-Wreorder]
 PluginRunner::PluginRunner(QString name, TabManager* tabMgr, QWidget * parent)
 ^
In file included from /src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.cpp:11:0:
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/MainUI/MainWindow.h: In member function 'bool PluginRunner::addFiles(const QStringList&)':
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/MainUI/MainWindow.h:688:10: error: 'void MainWindow::LoadFile(const QString&)' is private
     void LoadFile(const QString &fullfilepath);
          ^
/src/pdsw/Sigil/src/Sigil/Dialogs/PluginRunner.cpp:487:44: error: within this context
             m_mainWindow->LoadFile(epubPath);
                                            ^
src/Sigil/CMakeFiles/sigil.dir/build.make:1997: recipe for target 'src/Sigil/CMakeFiles/sigil.dir/Dialogs/PluginRunner.cpp.o' failed
make[2]: *** [src/Sigil/CMakeFiles/sigil.dir/Dialogs/PluginRunner.cpp.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:524: recipe for target 'src/Sigil/CMakeFiles/sigil.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [src/Sigil/CMakeFiles/sigil.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:113: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2


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cmake snippet
/src/pdsw/Sigil/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/CheckIncludeFile.cxx:1:30: fatal error: bits/type_traits.h: No such file or directory
 #include <bits/type_traits.h>

No idea which dev provides this!!
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