The general idea with GNU Build system is to
- ./configure
- make
- make install
However if there are problems it is not quite so simple. The following notes are how I resolved the issues that arose.
My QUCS Build Notes
These notes assume you already have the QUCS source code sitting in a folder somewhere. This instructions are for Ubuntu / Debian Linux which I use for my investigations.
- Recents notes on sourceforge by Frans on building regarding qt3 and qt4
- ADMS – analog mixed signal – I had to download and build. The build system specified the correct location under linux to match the QUCS build – When I search for this I was only using APT-GET. Need to recheck using Synaptic – much easier to find packages.
- download Qt3 3.3.8 – download to personal file area. Follow instructions here on how to setup. / unzip / rename to Qt and use terminal command: sudo mv ./qt /usr/local
- Qt 3.3.8 Download from Nokia FTP
Tools required by QUCS build: Much of this available as GNU Build Essentials – Using Synaptic – much easier! I installed these components:
- Autoconf version 2.57 (at least) – Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages.
- GNU automake 1.7.0 (at least) – Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in' files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards. Automake requires the use of Autoconf. sudo apt-get install build-essential
- flex 2.5.31 (but at least 2.5.9) – (The Fast Lexical Analyzer) – fast lexical analyser generator. It is a tool for generating programs that perform pattern-matching on text. Flex is a free (but non-GNU) implementation of the original Unix lex program. To download the software, get the documentation, and more, please see the Flex home page – sudo apt-get install flex
- GNU Bison 1.875d – this is a parser generator – sudo apt-get install bison
- Qt installation >= version 3.1 (by Trolltech)
- GNU M4 (any version) – I think was installed with build-essentials or gcc
- GNU gperf 3.0.1 – sudo apt-get install gperf
- adms 2.2.4 (at least) – Verilog-AMS (Analog and Mixed Signals) is a language designed to describe and simulate analog and mixed signal designs using both the top-level design methodology as well as the more traditional bottom up approach. SourceForge Download
Step: Add to .profile file to get Qt3 to build
In .profile (if your shell is bash, ksh, zsh or sh), add the following lines:
QTDIR=/usr/local/qt PATH=
PATH MANPATH=
MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
LD_LIBRARY_PATH export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Problem: Dependency being left out of header file 
There was a bug in the Qt 3.3.8 code. qvaluelist.h:91:13: error: ‘ptrdiff_t’ does not name a type
Fix is below:
qt-x11-free-3.3.8b make fails with ".obj/release-shared/qapplication_x11.o
Error 1 {...} ptrdiff_t does not name a type"
The fix is at qt-x11-free-3.3.8/include/qvaluelist.h
#ifndef QT_NO_STL
#include <iterator>
#include <list>
#endif
becomes
#ifndef QT_NO_STL
#include <iterator>
#include <list>
#include <cstddef>
#endif
Problem: After building the Qt library the ./Configure choked at the point it was supposed to find the library. This must have been because of it being the non threading library because of this:
Though the QTDIR environment variable is setup correctly, it may happen that the configure script cannot find the Qt® libraries because it is initially looking for the threaded libraries (the libqt-mt.so link). If you have installed the non-threaded library (the libqt.so link) configure fails. This can be worked around by
![./configure --disable-mt THIS WORKED </span></pre> You can probably avoid this issue if you install the mt ( multi threaded ) QT libraries. UpDate: 3-17-13: After using Synaptic to manage which QT3 libraries are installed it was no longer necessary to use the --disable-mt switch. <span style="font-size:14px;"><u><strong>Problem: During the make: "The header file 'componentdialog.h' doesn't include <QObject>. ....waterfall error : Due to incorrect version of MOC being used from Qt4<img alt="" height="25" src="/04.gif" width="25" /></strong></u></span> It appears that the componentdialog.moc.cpp file is being generated by the wrong version of Qt. In the top of the componentdialog.moc.cpp file I found the following annotation: ** Meta object code from reading C++ file 'componentdialog.h' ** ** Created: Mon Feb 25 21:11:45 2013 ** by: The Qt Meta Object Compiler version 63 (Qt 4.8.3) <ul> <li> Y<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/kdevelop-3-5-1-wont-compile-642311/">ou probably figured this out months ago, being that its now mid november, but you would need to use "./configure --with-qt-dir=/path/to/qt3" where the moc is in the bin directory in that path.</a> - this did configured with same 4.8.3 </li> <li> ComponentDialog.moc.cpp is generated when MAKE is run. ( I deleted and reran ./configure ...it did not reappear. Ran MAKE and it reappeared. </li> <li> <a href="http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt4/moc.html">Explanation on Nokia site of MOC file with QObject and what it does</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/moc">MOC Linux Man Page</a> </li> </ul> I theorized that the since the Qt 4 Designer was installed the MOC version being used would be version 4. Thus I removed the Qt4 Designer and ran <strong>./Configure</strong> and <strong>Make</strong> again. The following resulted: make[3]: Entering directory `/home/freemonsandlewould/Documents/qucs-0.0.16/qucs/components' /usr/bin/moc-qt3 -o componentdialog.moc.cpp componentdialog.h /bin/bash: /usr/bin/moc-qt3: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [componentdialog.moc.cpp] Error 127 This confirmed my theory. Next step installed Qt 3 Designer. <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong><u>Solution: Installing qt3-dev-tools - Getting the correct MOC</u></strong></span> <ul> <li> Could not find using apt-get </li> <li> lit up synaptic: entered qt3 into the filter </li> <li> installed qt3-dev-tools - this managed to install the correct version of MOC </li> </ul> The make made much more progress this time but encountered a compile error: <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong><u>Compiler Ambiguous Reference Issue<img alt="" height="25" src="/04.gif" width="25" /></u></strong></span> spfile.cpp: In member function ‘matrix spfile::correlationMatrix(double, nr_complex_t, double, matrix)’: spfile.cpp:412:21: error: call of overloaded ‘conj(nr_complex_t)’ is ambiguous spfile.cpp:412:21: note: candidates are: In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.7/tr1/complex:35:0, from ../../src/math/complex.h:34, from component.h:37, from spfile.cpp:29: <ul> <li> <a href="http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/462968-qucs-suse-11-4-a.html">qucs and suse 11.4</a> - Suggested hiding<strong> tr1 folder </strong>by naming it<strong> xtr1</strong> temporarily. < <strong>My Error! : I retried after <a href="http://www.softprayog.in/tutorials/understanding-gnu-build-system">make distclean</a> this time the compile finished</strong> </li> </ul> <em>Other possibilities: rather complex include the following: </em> <ul> <li> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/qucs/discussion/311050/thread/ea0834ef">qucs compile error</a> - appears more on target. Did not work. <strong>using std:conj </strong> in complex breaks the code sooner </li> </ul> Patches for this found ( not tried yet ) <ul> <li> <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615684">gcc-4.5 with QUCS</a> rather intricate patch file. Too risky as I don't know the exact file version to run against. </li> <li> <a href="https://github.com/Sitwon/SlackBuilds/blob/master/academic/qucs/qucs-disable-tr1.patch">qucs-disable-tr1.patch</a> - much simpler but I could not get it to run under the PATCH command </li> </ul> <span style="font-size:12px;"><u><strong>Step: I did the make INSTALL</strong></u> This appeared to complete successfully</span> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong><u>Problem: When I attempted to run QUCS the following error message was returned</u>: libqt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<img alt="" height="25" src="/02.gif" width="25" /></strong></span> <ul> <li> <span style="font-size:12px;">I found /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so.3 This is a link file to the version of qt3 lib file whose name varies according to version thus the level of indirection</span> </li> <li> <span style="font-size:12px;">I added <strong>/usr/local/qt/lib</strong> manually to: </span><strong>/etc/ld.so.conf</strong> </li> <li> During this phase of problem solving I deleted the qt3 library that I previous configure / make / install - I replace with the libqt3 multi threaded - It could be the next time I try to build the project that it may snag there. </li> <li> <span style="font-size:12px;">Using the ldd - list dependency command:</span><span style="font-size:12px;"> </span> </li> </ul> <strong>freemonsandlewould@lucy:/usr/local/bin](https://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/wp-content/ql-cache/quicklatex.com-e514f5c52a0f9106c426dbff2ccb67a3_l3.png "Rendered by QuickLaTeX.com")
ldd /usr/local/bin/qucs
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb76f9000)
libqt.so.3 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb75fa000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xb75cd000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb7423000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb76fa000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7405000)
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using locate command I found the library:
freemonsandlewould@lucy:/usr/local/bin$ locate libqt.so.3
/usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so.3
/usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so.3.3
/usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so.3.3.8
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I used the following command and it must have place the path to the library in the correct place because after this QUCS ran
sudo ldconfig /usr/local/qt/lib
QUCS booted up at this point
How to pull from Git and build
QUCS build with Qt4
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