Hi,

I've installed kdev-upload. However it didn't work with kdevelop 5.1.1.
The following message was in the output:

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cannot find .rc file "kdevupload.rc" for component "uploadplugin"

As defined in CMakeLists.txt the file gets copied to ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR} . So it is located in /usr/share/kdevupload/kdevupload.rc .
After a lot of debugging I found out, that it works when copied to the following location: /usr/share/kdevupload.rc . This works, but I get the following message:

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KXMLGUI file found at deprecated location ("/usr/share/kdevupload.rc") -- please use ${KXMLGUI_INSTALL_DIR} to install this file instead.

So I've tried to change CMakeLists.txt to ${KXMLGUI_INSTALL_DIR} which results in the same message which I had first:

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cannot find .rc file "kdevupload.rc" for component "uploadplugin"

I'm on Manjaro Linux with Plasma 5.10.4, Frameworks 5.36.0 , QT 5.9.1 , kdevelop 5.1.1

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$XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share"

It works when copying the rc file manually to /usr/share/kdevupload.rc , but I'm interested in a common solution.
I took a look at github kdev modules to find out how other modules do this.
The most common solutions seems to be /usr/share/kxmlgui5/kdevupload/kdevupload.rc . But this doesn't work either.

I also searched for some documentation on kdevelop plugin development, but didn't find anything helpful.

Best regards

One common way to do it nowadays seems to be to put it into a .qrc file which is compiled into the executable. I don't know how to install it properly, sorry -- if I were to find out, I'd look for a different application doing that.

As Sven said: putting the .rc into a resource is how it's done nowadays.

Please check out the following review, and just make kdev-upload do the same:
https://phabricator.kde.org/D528#0b38f892 (changes in plugins/documentview/ could be used as a template)

We'd happily accept a patch of yours on our Phabricator instance. To get started how to contribute, please read through:
https://www.kdevelop.org/contribute-kdevelop

Thanks!

Thanks for your replies!

So, this is what I've tried:
* added kdevupload.qrc https://pastebin.com/epuNcqme
* editet CMakeLists.txt https://pastebin.com/zNcEPYyF

Then I compile:

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cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr . && make -j8 && sudo make install

Which results in

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Install the project...
-- Install configuration: ""
-- Up-to-date: /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kdevplatform/27/kdevupload.so
-- Up-to-date: /usr/lib/qt/plugins/libkcm_kdev_upload.so
-- Up-to-date: /usr/share/kservices5/kcm_kdev_upload.desktop


And no output for

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sudo updatedb && locate kdevupload.rc | grep -v home

And still getting

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cannot find .rc file "kdevupload.rc" for component "uploadplugin"

As I understand the qrc includes the "kdevupload.rc" in the plugin, so it's not copied on the filesystem?

Maybe you need to use :/kdevupload.rc for the file name? Look at how the others do it maybe.

Qt resource files are not installed as files -- they are compiled into the binary and loaded from there. They don't exist as actual files.

Unfortunately this does not work either:

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No such XML file ":/kdevupload.rc"

I already took a look at other modules, which all do the same: https://github.com/KDE/kdevplatform/blo ... in.cpp#L93 .

Furthermore the method setXMLFile checks automatically if it's a qrc resource: https://github.com/KDE/kxmlgui/blob/mas ... t.cpp#L240

So I've printed out a list of all resource files and found:

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":/kxmlgui5/kdevupload"
":/kxmlgui5/kdevupload/kdevupload.rc"

And now I have the solution : https://github.com/KDE/kxmlgui/blob/mas ... t.cpp#L234
The component name was "uploadproject", but needs to be "kdevupload".

The context menu still does not work, but this might be caused by the following changes in kdevplatform:
https://github.com/KDE/kdevplatform/com ... eb39d8311f

I'm on kdevplatform 5.1.1 and the commit came later...

Thanks for your help!

So, now I've fixed the context menu, too. I had to create a different branch for kdevplatform 5.1.1 (which I've installed). The "broken-features" branch should work for kdevplatform > 5.1.1 .

I've read https://www.kdevelop.org/contribute-kdevelop which led me to https://phabricator.kde.org/dashboard/view/8/ which led me to https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Phabricator . I have to "Log in to Phab and enter Code Review (a.k.a Differential).". But I have no Phabricator account and can't find out how to register. So, I've pushed everything to github: https://github.com/schnere/kdev-upload .

Note: Instructions how to sign up are here: https://community.kde.org/Infrastructur ... Logging_in

Ah, again - thanks for your help!

https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/diff/17743/

You need to click continue once more to actually create a request.

@scummos : thanks for the hint!
@kfunk: thanks for merging!