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Version v3.11.0 or more recent
Debian/Ubuntu/Mint
Tested on Ubuntu 22.04. Unfortunately Actiona requires Qt 6.4 or more recent, so we can't use the system libraries.
Dependencies:
sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential cmake libnotify-dev libopencv-dev libxtst-dev libglx-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxcb-cursor0 libudev-dev libbluetooth-dev libxkbcommon-dev
Download the Qt online installer (open source edition) and install it.
Create/Sign up to your Qt Account, choose "Custom installation".
Install Qt 6.6.3 (Qt 6.7 is not compatible) with the following modules:
- Desktop
- Qt 5 Compatibility Module
- Additional Libraries
- Qt Multimedia
- Qt Speech
Get the code.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Jmgr/actiona.git
Enter the actiona directory:
cd actiona
Then build.
mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make
To run actiona, enter:
./actiona/actiona
Windows (with MinGW)
- Download and install the Qt online installer: https://www.qt.io/download-qt-installer-oss (note that you will need to create an account and log in)
- Select Qt 6.6.3 (Actiona 3 is not compatible with newer versions at the moment)
- Check Qt 5 Compatibility Module
- In "Additional libraries":
- Check Qt Multimedia
- Check Qt Speech
- Install CMake: https://cmake.org/download/
- Install Git: https://gitforwindows.org/
- Download the source code for OpenCV 4.x: https://opencv.org/releases/ and extract the archive
- Open a Command Prompt:
set PATH=C:\Qt\Tools\mingw1120_64\bin;%PATH%
(update the path to Qt if you installed it somewhere else)
cd <OpenCV directory>
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=. -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_world=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_calib3d=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_dnn=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_features2d=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_flann=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_gapi=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_highgui=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_ml=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_objdetect=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_photo=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_stitching=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_video=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_videoio=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_imgcodecs=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_java=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_js=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_python_bindings_generator=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_ts=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_perf_core=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_perf_imgproc=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_perf_features2d=OFF -DBUILD_opencv_perf_flann=OFF ..
mingw32-make -j install
- Open Git Bash: (and cd to the directory where you want to save the source code for Actiona)
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Jmgr/actiona.git
- Open QtCreator:
- in settings, check that your kits are not greyed out: if so, check that the CMake tool is set
- File → Open file or project, select the CMakeLists.txt file in the Actiona source code directory
- Set the build type to Release (Debug builds are not currently working when using MinGW on Windows)
- In Projects → CMake → Initial Configuration, click Add on the right, then Directory.
- Add "OpenCV_DIR" as the key, and "<OpenCV directory>\build" as the value
- Click "Re-configure with Initial Parameters"
- In Build steps → Details, in Tool aguments, add -j (allows compiling with more than one core)
- Build
- You should be able to run Actiona from within QtCreator now
Version v3.10.2 or older
Windows
- Install Visual Studio 2015 (Community edition should work)
- Install Qt (5.2.0 or more recent, QtScript is needed)
- Install QtCreator
- Install OpenCV binaries for Windows (version 2.x)
- Open CMakeLists.txt using QtCreator
- In the "Projects" tab, in "additional arguments", add:
- OPENCV_LIB="Path to the OpenCV library folder" (where all the .lib are)
- OPENCV_INCLUDE="Path to the OpenCV include path" (containing the opencv2 folder)
- OPENCV_LIB_CORE=Name of the core library filename (for example opencv_core249)
- OPENCV_LIB_IMGPROC=Name of the imgproc library filename (for example opencv_imgproc249)
- Compile
- Copy the opencv_corexxx.dll and opencv_imgproc.dll files from the OpenCV install path to the build directory containing all the binaries that where built in the previous step
- Run
GNU/Linux
Debian/Ubuntu/Mint
First download
We need Git, a C++ compiler (that can compile C++11 code, so for GCC, version 4.7 or better), Qt and all dependencies:
sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential cmake qtbase5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqt5texttospeech5-dev qtscript5-dev qttools5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libnotify-dev libudev-dev libopencv-dev libxtst-dev
If you want to use SQL databases you will also have to install the corresponding bindings, for instance, MySQL:
sudo apt-get install libqt5sql5-mysql
Get the code.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Jmgr/actiona.git
Enter the actiona directory:
cd actiona
Then build.
mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make
To run actiona, enter:
./actiona
Update
To update your version, open a terminal, go to the actiona/build directory and enter
git pull cmake .. make