BUILDING.md

BUILDING

Setting up build

You only need to do this once.

You need:

• Visual Studio C++ 2008 (This is for the Python compiler for py2exe)
• [QGIS 2.18] http://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-2.18.22-1-Setup-x86.exe

INSTALL NOTE: If you get a ValueError when running python setup.py install sometimes it can't run the visual studio batch file. Simply run C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat in the shell before running setupdev.bat

1. Download and install Visual Studio C++ Express
2. Run cmd.exe as admin
3. scripts\setupdev.bat 2.18

PyCharm

PyCharm can be started with the right environment using .\scripts\editors\pycharm-pyqgis.bat 2.18

Building ui files

1. cmd.exe
2. build.bat 2.18 build

build.bat is a make file with commands to build and package Roam

Following commands are supported:

- build
- exe
- release
- installer
- test
- test-only

Creating Exe

1. cmd.exe
2. build.bat 2.18 exe

Making release package

1. cmd.exe
2. build.bat 2.18 release