Installation

edfEdit is a program that has been built using Qt 3.2 (libqt-mt on a Suse Linux system). So, to compile it, you will need to have this library installed. And you should know where it is located (in my system it is installed at /usr/lib/qt3)

First of all you have to download the sources. They can be downloaded in two different forms

• As a source
• As a pre-compiled auto-installable binary version for Windows:

They can be downloaded from the download page.

In Linux systems, after downloading the file we decompress the sources in this way

je@unit0:~> tar zxvf edfEdit-1.0.tar.gz
edfEdit-1.0/
...
je@unit0:~> cd edfEdit-1.0/
je@unit0:~/edfEdit-1.0>

Now we compile the sources. To do this we need qmake, a utility included in Qt that creates a Makefile

je@unit0:~/edfEdit-1.0> export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
je@unit0:~/edfEdit-1.0> export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin

It is quite simple: we define the location and change the path to include the binary files needed by Qt

 
je@unit0:~/edfEdit-1.0> qmake
je@unit0:~/edfEdit-1.0> make
g++ -c -pipe -O2 -march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -fPIC -...

That's all; we have the program at the directory. We do not need further installation. In order to run the program we can make a link to a directory included in the path or you we even create a link on the desktop.

The main window of edfEdit is shown in figure 2.1

Figure 2.1: This is the main window of edfEdit

Now let's speak briefly about the installation on Windows systems: you only have to click on the installer. This tutorial is aimed to Linux users but I hope that its contents could be easily adapted and understood by Windows users too.