Compile from Source code

Is it possible to compile PostBooks/OpenRPT/CSVimp with open version of Qt? Documentation mentions only commercial one.

Thanks gmoskowitz for that quick reply (thought i have to count n days before the community replies). Im tasked to evaluate opensource erp's and I find openmfg/postbooks very functional, easy to get running.... but the base hard to compile???

I'll check the documentations. i'll give feedback soon.

I would like to know as to which compilers and other development tools are used by OpenMFG developers in your company for compiling PostBooks.

Please give names of the compilers so that we can try to compile using them if they are freeware or OS tools.

Is it possible to compile PostBooks in VC++ 2005 Express?

TIA

yogiyang

i'm a user of openmfg and redoing the app right now. There are a couple of gotchas here and there using MS compilers and QT i'll have to dig up my notes.

I'm use VS2003, and paid the 3K for QT with VS2003 integration. If you can afford it get both tools it makes using QT allot easier.

One of the gotchas is Intellisense does not work as expected and i have to write the instructions once i figure out why Intellisense does work in all cases. I got about half of the problems figured out.

Hi:

The 2.3.0 PostBooks-docs package on SourceForge contains detailed developer documentation which I believe will answer most of your questions about how to compile the application. You can get to those resources here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=196195

Meanwhile, if you might be interested in learning more about developing code to incorporate into PostBooks/OpenMFG, we do offer developer training. And our next training session is coming up later this month.

Details on all our upcoming training classes can be found here:

http://www.xtuple.org/index.php?option= ... 0&Itemid=1

Regards,
Pierce

Try the Developer Documentation at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/postbo ... erDocs.zip - due to the way SourceForge hides older download files, it's easy to miss.

Yes. You only need to use the commercial one if you have ambitions to commercialize (i.e. sell) your build.

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Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 12:16 PM
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Subject: [xTuple-dev] Re: Compile from Source code

Is it possible to compile PostBooks/OpenRPT/CSVimp with open version of Qt? Documentation mentions only commercial one.

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I'm trying to checkout postbook with wincvs. But according to developer docs env setup, I will need the following:

- Hostname to use for accessing the OpenMFG CVS repository
- Username to use for accessing the OpenMFG CVS repository
- CVS tag to use when checking out OpenRPT
- CVS tag to use when checking out OpenMFG

How do I get this usernames and cvs tags?

kyuri,

I just posted an update of the developer docs on SourceForge. Look at the downloads page for PostBooks to find the 2.3.0 release of Postbooks-docs.

The version of the developer env setup doc you are reading is somewhat out of date. People who want to build PostBooks do not need access to the OpenMFG CVS repository. That is only required if you are building the OpenMFG version of the software.

Use the R2_0_0 tag to get the latest stable OpenRPT.

Gil

hmmm. It looks as if the variable is not being passed correctly. The simplest way to address this would be rename your openrpt-2.3.0-source directory to be openrpt. Then running qmake normally should let the script find the directory name that it is looking for. I'll have to look into the scripts later to see if some intelligence can be added to handle the openrpt-version-source naming convention.

Keep in mind that, if you do windows development, you will need a commercial license of QT to use any version of Visual C++ (including Express). You can, however, compile with MingGW with the open source version of QT.

We use mingw here at xTuple. Visual what?

On 2/14/2008 4:27 PM kkmfg wrote:

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I tried compiling from source, but stumbled over some problems. I read the developer guide, but it didn't really help me.
I downloaded both OpenRPT and Postbooks from Sourceforge. Building OpenRPT is no problem. It runs fine too. But I can't make postbooks compile. A plain 'qmake-qt4' does not find OPENRPT_DIR, and I don't really know which directory is needed.
Does it need the source directory, or the location of the binaries?

This is also interesting for me as I want to provide packages for Slackware.

When compiling PostBooks make sure that you have the xtuple directory next to the openrpt directory. For example:

-src
--openrpt
--xtuple

When it is setup like this the compiling PostBooks should be able to find the openrpt builds. The other option you could try if you have it in a different location is to do 'qmake "OPENRPT_DIR=/path/to/openrpt"'.

i'm a user of openmfg and redoing the app right now. There are a couple of gotchas here and there using MS compilers and QT i'll have to dig up my notes.

I'm use VS2003, and paid the 3K for QT with VS2003 integration. If you can afford it get both tools it makes using QT allot easier.

One of the gotchas is Intellisense does not work as expected and i have to write the instructions once i figure out why Intellisense does work in all cases. I got about half of the problems figured out.

First of all Thanks for extending a helping hand.

I just want to add TDS, VAT and Taxation features to PostBooks as per the rules and regulations of my country. I am not interested in anything else.

I am using VS 2005 Express editions for my development. I am not an expert developer in C++.

In fact I never wanted to modify the code in any way when I downloaded PostBooks. I was under the impression that it would have been programmed with the latest Database and development concepts like MVC so it would have its Presenter (GUI) and Business logic separately layed out I will be able to add fields to existing forms (UI) as per my requirements and relocate existing fields as per my preference, but I cannot find a way to do something like this so Ultimately I have decided to resort to modify the code to make changes to the interface and to add new functionality to PostBooks as required by our organization.

I have worked with TineyERP where in you can modify an Xml file (which again is stored in the server) to make changes to the UI like adding fields, hiding fields, etc. etc.

Last thing is that I am expecting to see the complete ER Diagram of the database of PostBooks so that it becomes easy to make head and tail of data and how it is inter related, etc. etc. Currently without any such material it is a painfull process trying to detect as to what goes where and how it may affect other parts.

I just hope xTuple takes the time to document the whole database and explaing what is stored in which table, etc. etc.

Hello,

On 1/7/2008 4:12 AM yogiyang wrote:

Have you read the documentation for our existing VAT support? http://www.xtuple.com/docs/userguide/gl14.php

We will have a schema diagram available shortly. It's big.

Cheers,
Ned

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I have gone through the documentation. But what is provided is a bit too complicated for our requirement. It is perfect for a country where every state is having its own federal laws like the US but not for my country. So I want to implement it in a way which is easy to follow and use by a conventional user. To use what you provided it would require lot of brain storming and experimentation. I also want to add VAT reporting to product reports as required by our laws.

Please also add documentation as to what goes in which table.

Thanks for prompt reply.

Regards,

Yogi Yang

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=196195

Meanwhile, if you might be interested in learning more about developing code to incorporate into PostBooks/OpenMFG, we do offer developer training. And our next training session is coming up later this month.

Sorry I had avoided downloading the documentation. My fault. Sorry again. There is lot of information on what in needed and how we can compile the sourcecode.

Not practical to come for Asia to America for developer training. The cost is prohibitive.

Thanks,

Regards,

Yogi Yang

ok, so after unpacking those two packages, I have two directories. One is 'openrpt-2.3.0-source' and the other is 'xtuple-2.3.1-source'. I already said that openrpt is not the problem. When compiling postbooks I enter the second directory, which contains another folder 'xtuple' and three text files.
I enter xtuple and find the qmake project file. Now I tried the following commands:

qmake-qt4 OPENRPT_DIR=../../openrpt-2.3.0-source/bin/
qmake-qt4 OPENRPT_DIR=../../openrpt-2.3.0-source/OpenRPT/
qmake-qt4 OPENRPT_DIR=/mnt/progs/slack/sbo/test/openrpt-2.3.0-source/

all of them generate the Makefile successfully, but compiling stops with following error:

g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O2 -D_REENTRANT -DMAKELIB -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/lib/qt/mkspecs/default -I. -I../common -I..//OpenRPT/renderer -I..//OpenRPT/wrtembed -I..//MetaSQL -I/usr/lib/qt/include -Itmp/ -I. -Itmp/ -o tmp/metrics.o metrics.cpp
In file included from metrics.cpp:59:
metrics.h:65:23: error: xsqlquery.h: No such file or directory
metrics.cpp:60:20: error: QVariant: No such file or directory
metrics.h:98: error: ‘QVariant’ has not been declared
metrics.cpp: In member function ‘void Parameters::load()’:
metrics.cpp:71: error: ‘XSqlQuery’ was not declared in this scope
metrics.cpp:71: error: expected `;' before ‘q’
metrics.cpp:72: error: ‘q’ was not declared in this scope
metrics.cpp: In member function ‘void Parameters::set(const QString&, const QString&)’:
metrics.cpp:149: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘int’
metrics.cpp:149: error: initializing argument 2 of ‘void Parameters::_set(const QString&, int)’
metrics.cpp: At global scope:
metrics.cpp:152: error: ‘QVariant’ has not been declared
metrics.cpp: In member function ‘void Parameters::_set(const QString&, int)’:
metrics.cpp:154: error: ‘XSqlQuery’ was not declared in this scope
metrics.cpp:154: error: expected `;' before ‘q’
metrics.cpp:155: error: ‘q’ was not declared in this scope
metrics.cpp: In member function ‘void Preferences::remove(const QString&)’:
metrics.cpp:196: error: ‘XSqlQuery’ was not declared in this scope
metrics.cpp:196: error: expected `;' before ‘q’
metrics.cpp:197: error: ‘q’ was not declared in this scope

For once, it seems the include paths are hardcoded to "../", since this never changes. But even when generating symlinks (ie a ../common pointing to ../../openrpt-2.3.0-source/common) it exits with the same error.

I have replaced every appearance of ${OPENRPT_DIR} with the static path "../openrpt", which is the right one for my setup. The build command now looks like this:

g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O2 -D_REENTRANT -DMAKELIB -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/lib/qt/mkspecs/default -I. -I../../openrpt/common -I../../openrpt/OpenRPT/renderer -I../../openrpt/OpenRPT/wrtembed -I../../openrpt/MetaSQL -I/usr/lib/qt/include -Itmp/ -I. -Itmp/ -o tmp/metrics.o metrics.cpp

From my point of view everything should be fine. However it still throws the same error. Somehow it doesn't find xsqlquery.h.

True, that does work for finding the directory. But the compilation error stays the same.

I am at a loss at to why you are seeing that behavior. Look in global.pri. This file does some basic checking including searching for the openrpt directory. It determines the relative path to openrpt then other places will use that as part of config. For example in common.pro it sets the include with an extra ../ because it is one directory lower than the global.pri script.

pprkut,

Dumb question:
cd xtuple/common
ls ../../openrpt/common
What do you see?

Gil

I see this

<br />
Makefile<br />
booledit.cpp<br />
booledit.h<br />
booledit.ui<br />
common.pro<br />
common_fr.qm<br />
common_fr.ts<br />
dbtools.cpp<br />
dbtools.h<br />
doubleedit.cpp<br />
doubleedit.h<br />
doubleedit.ui<br />
header.h<br />
intedit.cpp<br />
intedit.h<br />
intedit.ui<br />
languageoptions.cpp<br />
languageoptions.h<br />
listedit.cpp<br />
listedit.h<br />
listedit.ui<br />
login.cpp<br />
login.h<br />
login.ui<br />
loginOptions.cpp<br />
loginOptions.h<br />
loginOptions.ui<br />
memdbloader.cpp<br />
memdbloader.h<br />
newvariant.cpp<br />
newvariant.h<br />
newvariant.ui<br />
parameter.cpp<br />
parameter.h<br />
parameteredit.cpp<br />
parameteredit.h<br />
parameteredit.ui<br />
paramlistedit.cpp<br />
paramlistedit.h<br />
paramlistedit.ui<br />
parsexmlutils.cpp<br />
parsexmlutils.h<br />
qlistboxvariant.cpp<br />
qlistboxvariant.h<br />
qrc_OpenRPTCommon.cpp<br />
querysource.cpp<br />
querysource.h<br />
quuencode.cpp<br />
quuencode.h<br />
reportpageoptions.cpp<br />
reportpageoptions.h<br />
stringedit.cpp<br />
stringedit.h<br />
stringedit.ui<br />
tmp/<br />
xsqlquery.cpp<br />
xsqlquery.h<br />
xvariant.cpp<br />
xvariant.h<br />

While trying to compile the source I am getting following errors.
I am using MinGW32 and QT Open Source version.
I am using the source that I downloaded from Source Forge server - Open Books 2.3.0

Any idea what must be wrong here?

TIA

Yogi Yang

in the manual they have

cd OpenRPT−checkout−dir
qmake
make

1) Did the qmake look ok.
2) What is the ouput of the set command without params?

i.e.
C:\>set
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_11\lib\ext\QTJava.zip
.
.
..

The path in my environment is

QMake worked without any errors. In fact it did not give any kind of messages. the only thing that happened is that it generated the 'Makefile' that is it.

Any thing wrong here?

My directory structure is as follows (just in case if this will help in diagnosis of my problem):
D:\PostBooks
D:\PostBooks\xtuple

D:\OpenRPT

C:\Curl
C:\Curl\curl-7.18.0

C:\MinGW

C:\Qt\4.3.4\bin

TIA

Regards,

Yogi Yang

yogiyang,

I've had trouble building with MinGW if Visual Studio is in my PATH, INCLUDE, and LIB variables. Try

cd D:\PostBooks\xtuple<br />
mingw32-make clean<br />
del Makefile<br />
del common\Makefile common\Makefile.*

Then
[:1n47wypo]Close the CMD window.
Remove the portions of your PATH, INCLUDE, and LIB environment variable settings that refer to Visual Studio.
Open a fresh CMD window.
Try to build again.[/:u:1n47wypo]

Gil

[/]

Ok will give this a try.

Yogi,
is mingw in your path? This seems to be more a problem creating the ar, but maybe that's normal on windows
no idea on what u are using, but building on linux looks much faster, that ofcourse depends on the processor.

Alessandro

tsdogs,

Yes Mingw is in my path. Here is the path that is active when I am compiling
Here it is

Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\Curl;C:\Curl\include\curl;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Qt\4.3.4\bin

PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
VS80COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\
windir=C:\WINDOWS

I have spaced out the path to make it easy to spot it.
Is what is above enought do I need to add anything more here?

I forgot to mention that my QT is 4.3.4... I hope the problem is not due to version conflict or something like that.

Regars,

Yogi Yang

Those are really weird errors.

By the way, even with open source QT, you can still compile and run it. I tested it on Visual Studio 2005 to compile QT applications, and can even run it debug and release mode.
I do not encounter problems using the open source version. Just do the qmake -project and nmake thing correctly. That is using qmake, you have to generate a platform independent .pro file and convert it to vcproj.

..

By the way, even with open source QT, you can still compile and run it. I tested it on Visual Studio 2005 to compile QT applications, and can even run it debug and release mode.
I do not encounter problems using the open source version. Just do the qmake -project and nmake thing correctly. That is using qmake, you have to generate a platform independent .pro file and convert it to vcproj.

..
I am not doing any kind of commercial development.

I am just interested in learning how to compile as I think this is a very complicated task.

I am trying to recheck out the source from SVN and then re try it again with a hope that it will work righ out of the box.

I really feel that there should be some instructions for compiling PostBooks using Borland C++ also.

Regards,

Yogi Yang

I am wondering if there is a suitable IDE which we can use for editing code and for compiling instead of giving command line commands for compiling PostBooks.

There is QDevelop which is in early stages though. http://qdevelop.free.fr/index.php
Visual Studio, is the most used on Windows I think. I dubt there is a way to use Borland C++ to develop QT applications.

Eclipse could also be used...

After cleaning up I gave following commands

It took around 15 minutes on my 2.47 GHz PentiumD with 512 MB RAM.

cd\postbooks
cd xtuple
qmake (this completes almost immediately without any messages at all)
mingw32-make --makefile=makefile >d:\tt.txt

The compilation process is not yet completed!

On giving the following command:
mingw32-make --makefile=makefile >d:\tt.txt

I get these warnings

The tt.txt file that is generated is currently around 2.7 MB. I am not attaching it here.

The compiling process is finally completed after 3 hours.
Regards,

Yogi Yang

tsgods,

Thanks for the command switch...

The lib folder is empty currently after running clean command that you have suggested.

Any idea how we can capture the screen output to a file or something like that?

yogiyang,

using this removes all the Makefiles too

<br />
mingw32-make distclean<br />

Is there a libcommon.dll (dll I suppose, I'm using Linux... version ) in
../../../openrpt/lib
which should be d:\openrpt\lib
?

The error that is in your listings seems to be a linker problem.
ld returned 1 exit status

While you seem to have your path statements correct it you seem to have Visual Studio elements in your lib and include variables and no mention of the QT and Postgresql stuff.

You might want to adjust this batch file to represent your locations and execute it in the command window just before you do the qmake.

rem<br />
PATH %PATH%;e:\PostgreSQL\8.2\bin<br />
set INCLUDE=e:\PostgreSQL\8.2\include;%INCLUDE%<br />
set LIB=e:\PostgreSQL\8.2\lib;%LIB%<br />
rem<br />
PATH %PATH%;e:\mingw\bin<br />
set INCLUDE=e:\mingw\include;;%INCLUDE%<br />
set LIB=e:\mingw\lib;%LIB%<br />
rem<br />
PATH %PATH%;E:\Qt\4.3.4\bin<br />
set INCLUDE=E:\Qt\4.3.4\include;%INCLUDE%<br />
set LIB=E:\Qt\4.3.4\lib;%LIB%

also

<br />
set LIB=;<br />
set INCLUDE=;<br />

should clean out any visual studio entries for that command window for that session only.

The instructions as published do work. I did it last week completely from scratch having never used Mingw before.

-- Martin --

While you seem to have your path statements correct it you seem to have Visual Studio elements in your lib and include variables and no mention of the QT and Postgresql stuff.

You might want to adjust this batch file to represent your locations and execute it in the command window just before you do the qmake.

rem<br />
PATH %PATH%;e:\PostgreSQL\8.2\bin<br />
set INCLUDE=e:\PostgreSQL\8.2\include;%INCLUDE%<br />
set LIB=e:\PostgreSQL\8.2\lib;%LIB%<br />
rem<br />
PATH %PATH%;e:\mingw\bin<br />
set INCLUDE=e:\mingw\include;;%INCLUDE%<br />
set LIB=e:\mingw\lib;%LIB%<br />
rem<br />
PATH %PATH%;E:\Qt\4.3.4\bin<br />
set INCLUDE=E:\Qt\4.3.4\include;%INCLUDE%<br />
set LIB=E:\Qt\4.3.4\lib;%LIB%

also

<br />
set LIB=;<br />
set INCLUDE=;<br />

should clean out any visual studio entries for that command window for that session only.

The instructions as published do work. I did it last week completely from scratch having never used Mingw before.

-- Martin --
Martin,
Thanks for pointing out missing paths to PostgreSQL.

Even after correcting everything as per your suggestions and as per others suggestions in this thread yet I am not able to compile.

I also downloaded QDevelop as per tsdog's suggestion as well as Eclipse.

But QDevelop just crashes when I try to open the main project file of XTuple (xtuple.pro). Against this OpenRTP project opens without any problems and compiles to exe without any problems.

By the way the source that I checked out from SVN created following folders
- csvimp
- updater
- xtuple
- xtupledocs
- xtupleserver

and its size is wooping 2075.4 MB!?!

I hope there is nothing wrong.

Regards,

Yogi Yang

It's probably 'cause there are the debugging informations still in the exe
doing a strip -s (where is the executable) would remove such info and reduce the size

Thanks I will try that.

Another reason for the bloated file on windows can be if you compiled the application with RTTI and exceptions enabled. For some reason with MinGW this causes the executable size to bloat. There have been other threads on this if you require additional information.

http://www.xtuple.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1982

http://www.xtuple.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1982
Thanks Cryan.

The other thread nailed the bloating problem to an extent. Now I will try and compress the EXE furhter using UPX or some such thing.

Regards,

Yogi Yang

At last the code got compiled!

Thanks to all who extended a helping hand.

The Checked out code did not compile but the source code that I downloaded from Source Forge did compile. It took around 3 hours to compile.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/postbo ... g_mirror=0

One last question: The compiled exe is very large.
The precompiled exe is 18.6 MB while my compiled exe is 29.3 MB. Any idea?

Thanks,

Regards,

Yogi Yang

I think I will evaluate Eclipse.

One more update is that even after checking out from SVN the code on compilation is giving same errors.

What to do now?

I am planning to format my system and try to compile the code on a fresh installation. Hope it works then.

Based on the errors above I would guess that the version of OpenRPT you are using is older and does not have the PreviewDialog function in it. You may want to check that you have a newer version. Either checkout from CVS the latest or download the 2.3.0 version of OpenRPT as that should have that functionality in it.

All the other errors before that are nothing important and mostly leftover bits from converting from Qt3 to Qt4 that hasn't been cleaned up yet.

All the other errors before that are nothing important and mostly leftover bits from converting from Qt3 to Qt4 that hasn't been cleaned up yet.
I have reverified. I am compiling the source of OpenRPT 2.3.0 and not an older version.

Thanks for looking into my problem.

Regards,

Yogi Yang