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QGroundControl Open Source Micro Air Vehicle Ground Control Station
Project:
http://qgroundcontrol.org
Files:
http://github.com/pixhawk/qgroundcontrol
http://github.com/pixhawk/mavlink
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* PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE MAVLINK LIBRARY IN ORDER TO COMPILE THIS APPLICATION *
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Mac OS X
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To build on Mac OS X (10.5 or later):
Install SDL
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1) Download SDL from: <http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.14.dmg>
2) From the SDL disk image, copy the `sdl.framework` bundle to `/Library/Frameworks` directory (if you are not an admin copy to `~/Library/Framewroks`)
Install QT with Cocoa
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1) Download Qt 4.6.2 with Cocoa from `http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-mac-cocoa-opensource-4.6.2.dmg`
2) Double click the package installer
Get the MAVLINK Library
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1) Clone the MAVLINK repository : `git clone git@github.com:pixhawk/mavlink.git`. **NOTE:** Make sure that the mavlink directory is in the same directory as groundcontrol. QGround control will look for mavlink library in ../mavlink
Build QGroundControl
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1) From the terminal go to the `groundcontrol` directory
2) Run `qmake`
3) Run `xcodebuild -configuration Release` or open `qgroundcontrol.xcodeproj` in Xcode and build.
Linux
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Hugo Vincent
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To build on Linux:
sudo apt-get install phonon libqt4-dev libqt4-phonon-dev \
libqt4-phonon libphonon-dev libphonon4 phonon-backend-gstreamer \
qt-creator libsdl1.2-dev libflite1 flite1-dev
cd directory
git clone git@github.com:pixhawk/mavlink.git
git clone git@github.com:pixhawk/qgroundcontrol.git
Ubuntu Application Menu -> Development -> Qt Creator
QtCreator Menu File -> Open File or Project..
Open directory/qgroundcontrol/qgroundcontrol.pro
Hit the green play button to compile and launch it
Done.
1) Download and install the QT SDK for Windows from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/.
2) Open qgroundcontrol.pro with QT to open the project.
3) Once the indexing is complete, you may build the project, which will compile and run the debug build.