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§Introduction
This crate serves as the base for all the KDE Frameworks Crate written by me. It sets important environment variables and provides helpful methods required in most KDE Frameworks.
Currently, mostly supposed to be used as a build dependency.
§Install kf5-config
§Ubuntu
sudo apt install libkf5kdelibs4support5-bin
§Fedroa
sudo dnf install kf5-kdelibs4support
§Environment Variables Read By this Crate
- It is optional to provide these variables. If these variables are not present, then
kf5-config
must be present in the path.
KF_LIBRARY_PATH
: Path for KDE Frameworks Library Location.KF_INCLUDE_PATH
: Path for KDE Frameworks Header Files Location.KF_VERSION
: KDE Frameworks Version. Format<major>.<minor>.<patch>
.
§Environment Variables Set By this Crate
KF_LIBRARY_PATH
: Path for KDE Frameworks Library Location.KF_INCLUDE_PATH
: Path for KDE Frameworks Header Files Location.KF_VERSION
: KDE Frameworks Version Detected.KF_FOUND
: Flag to specify if KDE Frameworks is found or not.
Modules§
- Helper Functions.
Functions§
- Function to check if Version, Include Path and Library Path Environment variables have been set
- Function to probe KDE using kf5-config tool.
- Function to Return the Include Path for the KDE Library. This is the path where the header files for the Library are located.
- Function to link a KDE Library. Eg: For linking
KI18n
: - Function to have Conditional Compilation based on KDE Frameworks version.