Setting up GCF 3 on your computer

Table of Contents

• Software Requirements
• Compiling GCF 3.0
• Environment variables
• Video tutorials

Software Requirements

GCF is built using Qt/C++. It has the following minimum software requirements

• Operating Systems
  • Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
  • Ubuntu Linux 12.04 and later
  • Apple Mac OS 10.8+
• Qt
  • Version 4.8.x (Tested against 4.8.4)
  • Version 5.x (Tested against 5.0.1 and 5.1.0)
• Compilers
  • On Windows: MinGW and Visual Studio 2010 (not tested on Visual Studio 2012)
  • On Mac and Linux: GCC 4.2+

Compiling GCF 3.0

To compile GCF 3.0.0, download the source code ZIP file and uncompress it in your home directory. Follow the instructions below

$ qmake -recursive
$ make

After the compilation process is done, all binaries can be found in the Binary folder.

Environment variables

The following environment variables must be setup to use GCF 3 in your applications

• Setup the GCFDIR environment variable to point to the source directory of GCF 3. After setting up this environment variable, you must be able to find
• Setup the QMAKEFEATURES environment variable to point to $GCFDIR/QMakePRF folder. $GCFDIR/QMakePRF/GCF3.prf
• On Windows, set PATH environment variable to include GCFDIR%/Binary
• On Linux, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include GCFDIR%/Binary
• On Mac, set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include GCFDIR%/Binary
• Restart your computer (or atleast Qt Creator)

Note

Environment variables are best set in .bashrc on Linux and Mac, so that they apply across login sessions.

Video tutorials