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Getting Pixymon to compile & run on Linux

Pixy Software
#1

Hi,

After some searching I was able to find what to modify pixymon 0.1.48 to compile and run on Ubuntu 12.04 on an Asus 1201n EeePC.

I guess many people are searching for this so I thought I would make it very clear to all in this post.

The modifs required are:

In the directory: pixymon-0.1.48/src/host/pixymon/

In the file: main.cpp , I commented out the incorrect #include and put a correct one below it:

//#include 
#include

In the file: pixymon.pro I added the 2nd line below:

QT       += core gui
QT       += widgets

The in the top level directory:

I fixed the error in the README file concerning pixy.rules, it should read “sudo cp” not -“sudo p”-

sudo cp pixy.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

Then pixymon ran ok!

I’ve attached a screenshot as proof!

So far so good!

#2

Hey Grateful Frog!
Thanks for sharing!

Interesting about the += widgets Do you remember what issue this prevented/fixed?

#3

Hi Rich!

I would have put the changes into the baseline if I had access!

If you don’t put the line:

QT += widgets

This is what you get when you build:

$ ./buildpixymon.sh
g++ -c -pipe -Wno-unused-parameter -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -fPIE -D__LINUX__ -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I/usr/share/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I../../common -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0 -I/usr/include/qt5 -I/usr/include/qt5/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt5/QtCore -I. -o main.o main.cpp
main.cpp:17:24: fatal error: QApplication: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

The error mentioned refers to this line in main.cpp

#include

I don’t know the QT framework, I only put those changes in as a result of searching on the Web for solutions to the first failed builds…

I’m happy to participate in further developments! (I am quite expert in C++)

Ciao,
Bob

#4

Hi Bob — sweet! Pushed the changes to github.

thanks!

Always happy to hear suggestions and ideas and even happier when someone wants add their suggestions and ideas to the source code!

#6

We have this guide:

https://docs.pixycam.com/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:v2:building_pixymon

Until recently it was pointing to the pixy1 repository (sorry!). Here is the new repository:

Let me know if anyone has issues.

Thanks gratefulfrog for the fix. I think you’re looking in the the older repository? (https://github.com/charmedlabs/pixy)

Edward