Hi Aaron,
Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with distro or
Ubuntu or Debian. My laptop is running Windows 11. A few weeks ago I download
and installed Qt6 and have been able to build a few simple Qt Windows
applications. I studied your email, googled 'how to', etc., but finding it
very difficult to simply download the KArchive library (KF6Archive (instead of
KF5Archive)) and the "kzip.h" header file for usage with Qt6.
Any other suggestions? Or do I need to figure out how to install/use Ubuntu on
my Windows 11 laptop?
If you can't be of further help, I understand.
Eric
On Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 06:38:43 PM EST, Aaron Rainbolt
<arraybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/18/24 13:30, Eric Ribble wrote:
I am a new user of Qt (using version 6.6) and Qt Creator I would like to use
KArchive to extract all folders and files from a zip file. I found the example
"karchive/examples/unzipper/main.cpp" source code. However, I don't know how
to download and install KArchive.
What distro are you using?
In order to install a library in such a way that you can use it in new
programs, you have to install both it and its development header files. There
are generally two ways to do this:
* The easy way - install the development header package for your library of
choice through your distro's package manager.
* The hard, dangerous way that you probably don't want yet - build the library
from source and then either install it directly or figure out how to point your
build system to it.
Obviously I'd recommend the former if you're just getting started. On Ubuntu,
the package you want is called "libkf5archive-dev", and can be installed with
"sudo apt install libkf5archive-dev". This will probably work on Debian too. If
you're on some other distro, you'll need to find and install the right package.
I added the following to my project's "CMakeLists.txt" as described on the
web page https://marketplace.qt.io/pages/karchiveinstructionspage :
find_package(KF5Archive)
target_link_libraries(Example4 KF5::Archive)
Attached is my "CMakeLists.txt" file and "Main.cpp" file.
In my "Main.cpp" the syntax-checker indicates that it can't find "kzip.h"
(probably because I don't know how to download/install it).
Here is a screenshot after trying to build:
Please advise on how to properly download/install KArchive so that this
simple program will build. Thanks for your help!
Eric Ribble
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