I'm currently trying to get started but failed with building Phonon (currently following this manual http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started ... tes#Phonon).

But I get an error that cmake can't find Automoc4 which should be in kdesupport. I already build kdesupport and installed it. As I'm not very familiar with building KDE or cmake in general I'm asking for help.

Maybe somebody knows what went wrong and where I have to look.

I post the error output of cmakekde when I'm back at home.

UPDATE: here's the output

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cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$QTDIR -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull \-DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=TRUE
-- Found Qt-Version 4.6.2 (using /home/kde-devel/qt-kde/bin/qmake)
-- Found Threads: TRUE
CMake Error at cmake/FindAutomoc4.cmake:75 (message):
  Did not find automoc4 (part of kdesupport).
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:28 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Where did you install kdesupport? If you installed it to a non-standard location, then you will need to export several environment variables. These values are CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, KDEDIRS and PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

The following shell code will set these environment variables as needed ( change $INSTALLPREFIX to where you installed kdesupport )

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export KDEDIRS=$INSTALLPREFIX:/usr
export PATH=$INSTALLPREFIX/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALLPREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$INSTALLPREFIX
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$INSTALLPREFIX/share/pkgconfig:$INSTALLPREFIX/lib/pkgconfig

how do I know where kdesupport was installed? normally all kde trunk stuff is installed into /home/kde-devel/kde

I tried setting $INSTALLPREFIX to that path but without success. still the same error.

UPDATE: I tried using cmakekde instead because I noticed the given cmake statement includes a -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$QTDIR...

I could compile but was this command correct if I want to proceed further?

That command appears to be correct, assuming $QTDIR was set. Given that it compiled fine it likely was able to locate where it was installing the files.

$QTDIR was set and no further problems occured... I continue to build KDE and advance to kdelibs

thanks for your help