Development Environment Setup

This page documents how to set up a development environment on a Debian Wheezy system for working on the Commotion Client codebase.

Install Python 3.3.5

We'll be installing Python 3.3.5 as an alternate install to Debian's stock Python 2.7.3

• Change to /tmp: cd /tmp
• Download source: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.3.5/Python-3.3.5.tgz
• Configure with shared libraries: ./configure --enable-shared
• Make Python 3.3.5: make
• Install as an alternate install: sudo make altinstall
• Create symlink for --enable-shared to work: sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpython3.3m.so.1.0 /usr/lib/python3/libpython3.3m.so.1.0
• Logout/login to refresh your user session, or restart your computer

Install Dependencies

• build-essential, pyqt4-dev-tools, qt4-designer

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential pyqt4-dev-tools qt4-designer

Install sip

• Download source: http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/download
• Extract: tar -zxvf sip-4.15.5 ./
• Configure: python3.3 configure.py
• Make sip: make
• Install: sudo make install

Install pyqt4

• Download source: http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download
• Extract: tar -zxvf PyQt-x11-gpl-4.10.4.tar.gz
• Configure: python3.3 configure-ng.py
• Make pyqt4: make
• Install: sudo make install

Install cx_freeze

• Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=cx_Freeze&version=4.3.3
• Extract: tar -zxvf cx_Freeze-4.3.3.tar.gz
• Build: python3.3 setup.py build
• Install: sudo python3.3 setup.py install