Re: [Chessx-users] [1.1.0] several compilation error

[Louis Z. <zu...@la...>]

On Jul 25, 2014, at 5:14 AM, Pietro wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to compile version 1.1.0 on ubuntu 14.04 laptop. I have Qt5.3.
> 
> I find so many error in compilation that I start wondering if the tar.gz uploaded in the web-site is the right one!
> 
> First, the make process couldn't find the file chessx_de.qm in the directory /i18n. I looked at it and there is no such file, but chessx_de.ts, so I modified the file resource.h to find that.


This issue has existed for a long time. Just create an empty file with the name. I reported this issue. Here's the reply:

>> Hello Louis,
>> 
>> you can simply touch all non-existing files or create arbitrary files by whatever means, they will be overwritten by the build process.
>> i.e.,
>> 
>> touch i18n/chessx_de.qm
>> touch i18n/chessx_fr.qm
>> touch i18n/chessx_da.qm
>> 
>> The latter file is needed in case you get the latest sources from svn


> 
> Then I started again the compilation, but this time I receive the following error
> 
> In file included from src/quazip/quazip.h:31:0,
>                  from src/gui/mainwindow.cpp:38:
> src/quazip/zip.h:56:18: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <zlib.h>
>                   ^
> compilation terminated.
> make: *** [obj_rel/mainwindow.o] Error 1
> 
> 
> and, in fact, I looked for that file through all the src but it's not anywhere.

For the missing zlib header, try this at a command line: sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Louis