1 Compiling KeePassX 2 from Source with Qt 4.8.0
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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9 I am a huge http://keepass.info/[KeePass] fan. I started using it back in
10 college (which was oh so long ago...yyeeaaahhh) when I was using Windows. I
11 later switched to using Linux full time (Ubuntu is definitely a gateway
12 distro). Sadly, I had to leave behind the wonders of the kdbx format for kdb
13 because the Linux KeePass version, http://www.keepassx.org[KeePassX], doesn't
14 support the newer format. But hey, beggers can't be choosers, right?
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16 A few months back, the developer for KeePassX, debfx, posted on his blog
17 http://www.keepassx.org/news/2010/09/242[here] that he was completely
18 rebuilding KeePassX from scratch. With that, I headed straight on over to his
19 gitorious page and grabbed his source code. Upon trying to build from source, I
20 met a few issues. First off, here's what I typed to get started.
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22 From a directory called build inside of the master directory, I ran the
23 following:
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26 cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/Desktop/keepassx/keepassx
27 make
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30 Running cmake worked fine, but when I ran make I received the following errors.
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33 /usr/include/QtCore/qscopedpointer.h:207:1: error: stray ‘`’ in program
34 /usr/include/QtCore/qscopedpointer.h: In member function ‘const T& QScopedArrayPointer<T, Cleanup>::operator[](int) const’:
35 /usr/include/QtCore/qscopedpointer.h:226:9: error: ‘r’ was not declared in this scope
36 /usr/include/QtCore/qscopedpointer.h:226:11: error: ‘turn’ was not declared in this scope
37 /usr/include/QtCore/qscopedpointer.h:226:16: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘this’
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40 Oddly it would seem we have a problem with our QtCore stuff. Here's how we fix
41 this. In my case, I only had to change two things. Both changes need to be made
42 to **/usr/include/QtCore/qscopedpointer.h**.
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44 Firstly, head down to line 207. It will look like
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47 template <typename T,`typename Cleanup = QScopedPointerArrayDeleter>T> >
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50 Remove the `
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53 template <typename T,typename Cleanup = QScopedPointerArrayDeleter<T> >
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56 Secondly, head down to line 226 which should look like
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59 r%turn this->d[i];
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62 Change the % to the letter e
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65 return this->d[i];
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68 Once you've done that, go back and run the cmake, make, and make install
69 commands and you should be set. It looks like a lot of work has yet to be done,
70 but overall it's looking really great. Serious props to debfx for working on
71 KeePassX. I'm really looking forward to this.
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74 Category:Linux
75 Category:Linux_Applications
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