QCad 2
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1 What is QCad?

This is QCad version 2.x. QCad is a simple 2D CAD program which runs
under Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and several Unix systems.


2 License

- The QCad Community edition for Linux, Unix systems and Mac OS X is 
  released in the form of source code under the GPL 
  (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt).
- QCad Professional and all QCad versions for Windows are proprietary 
  software.


3 Installation

3.1 Installation of Binaries

3.1.1 Linux / Mac OS X

After extracting the tar.gz archive, there's no need to explicitly 
install QCad. 
If you extracted the file in /opt and have now a directory called

/opt/qcad-2.0.0.0-1-demo.linux.x86

you can run QCad by typing:

cd /opt/qcad-2.0.0.0-1-demo.linux.x86
./qcad

All files needed by QCad can reside in its own installation 
directory (recommended).

To un-install QCad, simply remove the directory where you've 
extracted it:

rm -r /opt/qcad-2.0.0.0-1-demo.linux.x86

Additionally there might be some thumbnail images and configuration 
files in your home directory:

/home/user/.qcad/


3.2 Installation from Sources (Community Edition)

Please note that the source distributions of QCad are intended for
developers and people who want to run QCad on a platform where no
binaries exist. If you're not in these two groups of people, please
consider downloading a binary instead. 
Please understand that RibbonSoft cannot offer support for compiling 
and running the QCad community edition.

3.2.1 Requirements

You need to have the following tools and libraries installed to be ready
to compile QCad from sources:

- Qt 3.3 or later
  - qmake (part of the Qt package)
  - uic (part of the Qt package)
- make
- gcc 3.x

3.2.2 Preparation

Set QTDIR to the directory where you've installed Qt. 
e.g.:
  export QTDIR=/opt/qt

Set QMAKESPEC to the spec that is most suitable for your platform.
e.g.:
  export QMAKESPEC=$QTDIR/mkspecs/linux-g++

Make sure that qmake and uic can be found in your path:
  qmake -v
  Qmake version: 1.04a (Qt 3.1.1)

If that is not the case, please add the Qt binary path to your PATH
environment variable:
  export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin

3.2.3 Compilation

Change to the 'scripts' directory of your source code package:
  cd scripts

Run the compilation script:
  sh ./build_qcad.sh

