Compiling OpenCPN Source Code

[nirav]

Hi everyone, thanks for welcoming me to the community.

I am trying to compile the source code of OpenCPN from Github. I have been stuck on this for about 2 days now. I was wondering if anyone has managed to compile the source code and build the project in VS or CodeBlocks. I would really appreciate if anyone can guide me to the right direction or assist in compiling and building the project for either Visual Studio or Code Blocks.

Thank you kindly,

Nirav P.

[nirav]

The problem I face is with Libusb. I can't past the error of LibUSB and can not actually compile the project. I would appreciate any help on this. Thanks.

[Hakan]

nirav..
I use to follow these advises:
https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...piling_windows

[nirav]

Originally Posted by Hakan

nirav..
I use to follow these advises:
https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...piling_windows

I tried both Hakan. For Linux and Windows. But the instruction for windows are outdated and doesn't seem to work. With Linux, the issue is with "LibUSB". Ran into a couple of errors that prevents from making a build.

With windows, I can not compile/ build due to wxwidget incompability. Did you run into any issue when you followed windows compilation?

Thanks,
Nirav

[nohal]

Nirav...

The instructions for Windows are not outdated and do work. If followed. They are followed to the point by the CI builds and those builds are done for each single commit to the Git repository, so if they were outdated and did not work we would probably know that.

Same with Linux, but there slight nuances are possible based on your distribution and the way it packages the compile time dependencies.

If you have some problem, please post the exact errors you are getting and information about your environment in case of "Linux".

[Hakan]

Nirav...


Trust Nohal the excellent author of the instructions. And yes they do work well for me. Both for Win and Linux. But do carefully read and follow all words in the wiki. They all matters. No shortcuts.

Håkan