GSOC 2014: Porting BuildmLearn to Linux

[André Lourenço]

Hello,

      My name is André Lourenço, I'm almost 19 years old, almost 20, and I programme since I was 14, mainly in C++, but I also know Python and I already started with Java.
      I'm very interested in working on porting BuildmLearn to Linux, that was proposed for GSOC 2014. I never worked on nothing like this, but this is a great oportunity to do it.
      I'm a Windows and Ubuntu user, so I'm familiar with both. I also used Linux Mint, that's also a deb distro. I often programme C++ in WIndows so I am not familiar with the diferences in coding between WIn and Linux, but I'm confortable with the language so I believe I can get over it. I would like to know if you guys have any prefered way to do it.

Best Regards

[Rahul Ahuja]

Hi André

The BuildmLearn Toolkit is developed using Qt framework. Qt is a C++ framework. I would suggest you to explore it and also have a look at our code on Github. 

Get the project up and running on Windows first and then see how you can port it to Linux. 

[André Lourenço]

I believe Qt won't be a big problem since it's made for multiplatforms. As soon as g++ it's used, the concern will be switching window's exclusive libs for linux equivalents. By the way, the project consists in porting both to Mac and Linux, or can I port to Linux and someone else that owns a Mac do it for Mac?

[Pankaj Nathani]

 By the way, the project consists in porting both to Mac and Linux, or can I port to Linux and someone else that owns a Mac do it for Mac?

Yes, you can submit a proposal for porting to only Linux or Mac or both. 

[Gábor Pintér]

Qt is a magical c++ multiplatform framework. I download the project, looked at from afar. To be building on Mac and Linux, you can't so many changes applied(QProcess,QDir sure).

However, i have a question. What kind of qt do you use?

Because i(5.2) have to include the gui widgets to building.