Download SVN KDE4

CHECKOUT KDE4 VERSION

Note: check the dependencies before trying to compile digiKam.

digiKam-preview

To checkout the latest kdegraphics libs svn source for KDE4 (includes libkipi, libkdcraw, libkexiv2, libksane) :

# svn co -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdegraphics
# cd kdegraphics
# svn up libs
# svn up cmake

To Checkout the latest digiKam and Kipi-plugins SVN source for KDE4:

# cd ..
# svn co -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics
# cd graphics
# svn up digikam
# svn up kipi-plugins
# svn up cmake

Installation for KDE4 in your system

To compile the source code under linux you have to give these commands in the source code folders (graphics and kdegraphics). You should use a separate build folder to help cleaning up sources if something goes wrong.

# mkdir build
# cd build
# cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..
# make
# su
# make install

Compilation and Installation under Microsoft Windows

To compile the source code under Windows, take a look into this tutorial.