Building QGIS from source - step by step
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Overview
- 3. Building on GNU/Linux
- 3.1. Building QGIS with Qt 5.x
- 3.2. Prepare apt
- 3.3. Install build dependencies
- 3.4. Setup ccache (Optional, but recommended)
- 3.5. Prepare your development environment
- 3.6. Check out the QGIS Source Code
- 3.7. Starting the compile
- 3.8. Compiling with 3D
- 3.9. Building different branches
- 3.10. Building Debian packages
- 3.11. On Fedora Linux
- 4. Building on Windows
- 5. Building on MacOS X
- 6. Setting up the WCS test server on GNU/Linux
- 7. Setting up a Jenkins Build Server
- 8. Debug output and running tests
- 9. Authors and Acknowledgments
This document is the original installation guide of the described software QGIS. The software and hardware descriptions named in this document are in most cases registered trademarks and are therefore subject to the legal requirements. QGIS is subject to the GNU General Public License. Find more information on the QGIS Homepage: https://qgis.org
The details, that are given in this document have been written and verified to the best of knowledge and responsibility of the editors. Nevertheless, mistakes concerning the content are possible. Therefore, all data are not liable to any duties or guarantees. The editors and publishers do not take any responsibility or liability for failures and their consequences. You are always welcome for indicating possible mistakes.
Because the code of QGIS evolves from release to release, These instructions are regularly updated to match the corresponding release. Instructions for the current master branch are available at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/INSTALL.md. If you wish to build another version of QGIS, ensure to checkout the appropriate release branch. The QGIS source code can be found in the repository.
Please visit https://qgis.org for information on joining our mailing lists and getting involved in the project further.
Note to document writers: Please use this document as the central place for describing build procedures. Please do not remove this notice.
QGIS, like a number of major projects (e.g., KDE 4.0), uses CMake for building from source.
Following a summary of the required dependencies for building:
Required build tools:
- CMake >= 3.12.0
- Flex >= 2.5.6
- Bison >= 2.4
- Python >= 3.7
Required build dependencies:
- Qt >= 5.15.2
- Proj >= 7.2.0
- GEOS >= 3.9
- Sqlite3 >= 3.0.0
- SpatiaLite >= 4.2.0
- libspatialindex
- GDAL/OGR >= 3.2.0
- Qwt >= 5.0 & (< 6.1 with internal QwtPolar)
- expat >= 1.95
- QScintilla2
- QCA
- qtkeychain (>= 0.5)
- libzip
Optional dependencies:
- for GRASS providers and plugin - GRASS >= 7.0.0.
- for georeferencer - GSL >= 1.8
- for PostGIS support - PostgreSQL >= 8.0.x
- for gps plugin - gpsbabel
- for mapserver export and PyQGIS - Python >= 3.6
- for python support - SIP >= 4.12, PyQt >= 5.3 must match Qt version, Qscintilla2
- for qgis mapserver - FastCGI
- for oracle provider - Oracle OCI library
Indirect dependencies:
Some proprietary formats (e.g., ECW and MrSid) supported by GDAL require proprietary third party libraries. QGIS doesn't need any of those itself to build, but will only support those formats if GDAL is built accordingly. Refer to format list for instructions how to include those formats in GDAL.
Requires: Ubuntu / Debian derived distro
Note: Refer to the section Building Debian packages for building debian packages. Unless you plan to develop on QGIS, that is probably the easiest option to compile and install QGIS.
These notes are for Ubuntu - other versions and Debian derived distros may require slight variations in package names.
These notes are for if you want to build QGIS from source. One of the major aims here is to show how this can be done using binary packages for all dependencies - building only the core QGIS stuff from source. I prefer this approach because it means we can leave the business of managing system packages to apt and only concern ourselves with coding QGIS!
This document assumes you have made a fresh install and have a 'clean' system. These instructions should work fine if this is a system that has already been in use for a while, you may need to just skip those steps which are irrelevant to you.
You will need a recent enough distribution in order for all dependencies to be met. The supported distributions are listed in the following section.
Now update your local sources database:
sudo apt-get update
Distribution | Install command for packages |
---|---|
bullseye | apt-get install bison build-essential ca-certificates ccache cmake cmake-curses-gui dh-python doxygen expect flex flip gdal-bin git graphviz grass-dev libdraco-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libfcgi-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libgsl-dev libpdal-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libprotobuf-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqscintilla2-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libspatialindex-dev libspatialite-dev libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libyaml-tiny-perl libzip-dev libzstd-dev lighttpd locales ninja-build ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers pandoc pdal pkg-config poppler-utils protobuf-compiler pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools pyqt5.qsci-dev python3-all-dev python3-autopep8 python3-dev python3-gdal python3-jinja2 python3-lxml python3-mock python3-nose2 python3-owslib python3-plotly python3-psycopg2 python3-pygments python3-pyproj python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qsci python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia python3-pyqt5.qtpositioning python3-pyqt5.qtserialport python3-pyqt5.qtsql python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-sip python3-sip-dev python3-termcolor python3-yaml qt3d-assimpsceneimport-plugin qt3d-defaultgeometryloader-plugin qt3d-gltfsceneio-plugin qt3d-scene2d-plugin qt3d5-dev qt5keychain-dev qtbase5-dev qtbase5-private-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qtpositioning5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools spawn-fcgi xauth xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xvfb |
bookworm | apt-get install bison build-essential ca-certificates ccache cmake cmake-curses-gui dh-python doxygen expect flex flip gdal-bin git graphviz grass-dev libdraco-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libfcgi-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libgsl-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libprotobuf-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqscintilla2-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libspatialindex-dev libspatialite-dev libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libyaml-tiny-perl libzip-dev libzstd-dev lighttpd locales ninja-build ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers pandoc pkg-config poppler-utils protobuf-compiler pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools pyqt5.qsci-dev python3-all-dev python3-autopep8 python3-dev python3-gdal python3-jinja2 python3-lxml python3-mock python3-nose2 python3-owslib python3-plotly python3-psycopg2 python3-pygments python3-pyproj python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qsci python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia python3-pyqt5.qtpositioning python3-pyqt5.qtserialport python3-pyqt5.qtsql python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-pyqtbuild python3-sip python3-termcolor python3-yaml qt3d-assimpsceneimport-plugin qt3d-defaultgeometryloader-plugin qt3d-gltfsceneio-plugin qt3d-scene2d-plugin qt3d5-dev qtbase5-dev qtbase5-private-dev qtkeychain-qt5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qtpositioning5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools sip-tools spawn-fcgi xauth xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xvfb |
jammy | apt-get install bison build-essential ca-certificates ccache cmake cmake-curses-gui dh-python doxygen expect flex flip gdal-bin git graphviz grass-dev libdraco-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libfcgi-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libgsl-dev libpdal-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libprotobuf-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqscintilla2-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libspatialindex-dev libspatialite-dev libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libyaml-tiny-perl libzip-dev libzstd-dev lighttpd locales ninja-build ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers pandoc pdal pkg-config poppler-utils protobuf-compiler pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools pyqt5.qsci-dev python3-all-dev python3-autopep8 python3-dev python3-gdal python3-jinja2 python3-lxml python3-mock python3-nose2 python3-owslib python3-plotly python3-psycopg2 python3-pygments python3-pyproj python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qsci python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia python3-pyqt5.qtpositioning python3-pyqt5.qtserialport python3-pyqt5.qtsql python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-pyqtbuild python3-sip python3-termcolor python3-yaml qt3d-assimpsceneimport-plugin qt3d-defaultgeometryloader-plugin qt3d-gltfsceneio-plugin qt3d-scene2d-plugin qt3d5-dev qtbase5-dev qtbase5-private-dev qtkeychain-qt5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qtpositioning5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools sip-tools spawn-fcgi xauth xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xvfb |
kinetic | apt-get install bison build-essential ca-certificates ccache cmake cmake-curses-gui dh-python doxygen expect flex flip gdal-bin git graphviz grass-dev libdraco-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libfcgi-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libgsl-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libprotobuf-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqscintilla2-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libspatialindex-dev libspatialite-dev libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libyaml-tiny-perl libzip-dev libzstd-dev lighttpd locales ninja-build ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers pandoc pkg-config poppler-utils protobuf-compiler pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools pyqt5.qsci-dev python3-all-dev python3-autopep8 python3-dev python3-gdal python3-jinja2 python3-lxml python3-mock python3-nose2 python3-owslib python3-plotly python3-psycopg2 python3-pygments python3-pyproj python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qsci python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia python3-pyqt5.qtpositioning python3-pyqt5.qtserialport python3-pyqt5.qtsql python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-pyqtbuild python3-sip python3-termcolor python3-yaml qt3d-assimpsceneimport-plugin qt3d-defaultgeometryloader-plugin qt3d-gltfsceneio-plugin qt3d-scene2d-plugin qt3d5-dev qtbase5-dev qtbase5-private-dev qtkeychain-qt5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qtpositioning5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools sip-tools spawn-fcgi xauth xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xvfb |
lunar | apt-get install bison build-essential ca-certificates ccache cmake cmake-curses-gui dh-python doxygen expect flex flip gdal-bin git graphviz grass-dev libdraco-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libfcgi-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libgsl-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libprotobuf-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqscintilla2-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libspatialindex-dev libspatialite-dev libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libyaml-tiny-perl libzip-dev libzstd-dev lighttpd locales ninja-build ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers pandoc pkg-config poppler-utils protobuf-compiler pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools pyqt5.qsci-dev python3-all-dev python3-autopep8 python3-dev python3-gdal python3-jinja2 python3-lxml python3-mock python3-nose2 python3-owslib python3-plotly python3-psycopg2 python3-pygments python3-pyproj python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qsci python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia python3-pyqt5.qtpositioning python3-pyqt5.qtserialport python3-pyqt5.qtsql python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-pyqtbuild python3-sip python3-termcolor python3-yaml qt3d-assimpsceneimport-plugin qt3d-defaultgeometryloader-plugin qt3d-gltfsceneio-plugin qt3d-scene2d-plugin qt3d5-dev qtbase5-dev qtbase5-private-dev qtkeychain-qt5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qtpositioning5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools sip-tools spawn-fcgi xauth xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xvfb |
mantic | apt-get install bison build-essential ca-certificates ccache cmake cmake-curses-gui dh-python doxygen expect flex flip gdal-bin git graphviz grass-dev libdraco-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libfcgi-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libgsl-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libprotobuf-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqscintilla2-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libspatialindex-dev libspatialite-dev libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libyaml-tiny-perl libzip-dev libzstd-dev lighttpd locales ninja-build ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers pandoc pkg-config poppler-utils protobuf-compiler pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools pyqt5.qsci-dev python3-all-dev python3-autopep8 python3-dev python3-gdal python3-jinja2 python3-lxml python3-mock python3-nose2 python3-owslib python3-plotly python3-psycopg2 python3-pygments python3-pyproj python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qsci python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia python3-pyqt5.qtpositioning python3-pyqt5.qtserialport python3-pyqt5.qtsql python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-pyqtbuild python3-sip python3-termcolor python3-yaml qt3d-assimpsceneimport-plugin qt3d-defaultgeometryloader-plugin qt3d-gltfsceneio-plugin qt3d-scene2d-plugin qt3d5-dev qtbase5-dev qtbase5-private-dev qtkeychain-qt5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qtpositioning5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools sip-tools spawn-fcgi xauth xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xvfb |
noble | apt-get install bison build-essential ca-certificates ccache cmake cmake-curses-gui dh-python doxygen expect flex flip gdal-bin git graphviz grass-dev libdraco-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libfcgi-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libgsl-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libprotobuf-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqscintilla2-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libspatialindex-dev libspatialite-dev libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libyaml-tiny-perl libzip-dev libzstd-dev lighttpd locales ninja-build ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers pandoc pkg-config poppler-utils protobuf-compiler pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools pyqt5.qsci-dev python3-all-dev python3-autopep8 python3-dev python3-gdal python3-jinja2 python3-lxml python3-mock python3-nose2 python3-owslib python3-plotly python3-psycopg2 python3-pygments python3-pyproj python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qsci python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia python3-pyqt5.qtpositioning python3-pyqt5.qtserialport python3-pyqt5.qtsql python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-pyqtbuild python3-sip python3-termcolor python3-yaml qt3d-assimpsceneimport-plugin qt3d-defaultgeometryloader-plugin qt3d-gltfsceneio-plugin qt3d-scene2d-plugin qt3d5-dev qtbase5-dev qtbase5-private-dev qtkeychain-qt5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qtpositioning5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools sip-tools spawn-fcgi xauth xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xvfb |
sid | apt-get install bison build-essential ca-certificates ccache cmake cmake-curses-gui dh-python doxygen expect flex flip gdal-bin git graphviz grass-dev libdraco-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libfcgi-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libgsl-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libprotobuf-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqscintilla2-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libspatialindex-dev libspatialite-dev libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libyaml-tiny-perl libzip-dev libzstd-dev lighttpd locales ninja-build ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers pandoc pkg-config poppler-utils protobuf-compiler pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools pyqt5.qsci-dev python3-all-dev python3-autopep8 python3-dev python3-gdal python3-jinja2 python3-lxml python3-mock python3-nose2 python3-owslib python3-plotly python3-psycopg2 python3-pygments python3-pyproj python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qsci python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia python3-pyqt5.qtpositioning python3-pyqt5.qtserialport python3-pyqt5.qtsql python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-pyqtbuild python3-sip python3-termcolor python3-yaml qt3d-assimpsceneimport-plugin qt3d-defaultgeometryloader-plugin qt3d-gltfsceneio-plugin qt3d-scene2d-plugin qt3d5-dev qtbase5-dev qtbase5-private-dev qtkeychain-qt5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qtpositioning5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools sip-tools spawn-fcgi xauth xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xvfb |
(extracted from the control.in file in debian/
)
See debian-ubuntu for currently supported distributions (plain xenial's GDAL for instance is too old and we build with GDAL2 from ubuntugis).
To build QGIS server landing page/catalog webapp additional dependencies are required:
- Node.js (current LTS recommended): https://nodejs.org/en/download/
- Yarn Package Manager: https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/install
Additionally, the cmake flag WITH_SERVER_LANDINGPAGE_WEBAPP
needs to be turned on.
You should also setup ccache to speed up compile times:
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ccache gcc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ccache g++
or simply add /usr/lib/ccache
to your PATH
.
As a convention I do all my development work in $HOME/dev/, so in this case we will create a work environment for C++ development work like this:
mkdir -p ${HOME}/dev/cpp
cd ${HOME}/dev/cpp
This directory path will be assumed for all instructions that follow.
There are two ways the source can be checked out. Use the anonymous method if you do not have edit privileges for the QGIS source repository, or use the developer checkout if you have permissions to commit source code changes.
- Anonymous Checkout
cd ${HOME}/dev/cpp
git clone https://github.com/qgis/QGIS.git
- Developer Checkout
cd ${HOME}/dev/cpp
git clone git@github.com:qgis/QGIS.git
I compile my development version of QGIS into my ~/apps directory to avoid conflicts with Ubuntu packages that may be under /usr. This way for example you can use the binary packages of QGIS on your system along side with your development version. I suggest you do something similar:
mkdir -p ${HOME}/apps
Now we create a build directory and run ccmake:
cd QGIS
mkdir build-master
cd build-master
ccmake ..
When you run ccmake (note the .. is required!), a menu will appear where you can configure various aspects of the build:
- If you want QGIS to have debugging capabilities then set
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
toDebug
. - If you do not have root access or do not want to overwrite existing QGIS
installs (by your package manager for example), set the
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
to somewhere you have write access to (For example${HOME}/apps
).
Now press 'c' to configure, 'e' to dismiss any error messages that may appear. and 'g' to generate the make files. Note that sometimes 'c' needs to be pressed several times before the 'g' option becomes available. After the 'g' generation is complete, press 'q' to exit the ccmake interactive dialog.
Warning: Make sure that your build directory is completely empty when you
enter the command. Do never try to "re-use" an existing Qt5 build directory.
If you want to use ccmake
or other interactive tools, run the command in
the empty build directory once before starting to use the interactive tools.
Now on with the build:
make -jX
where X is the number of available cores. Depending on your platform, this can speed up the build time considerably.
Then you can directly run from the build directory:
./output/bin/qgis
Another option is to install to your system:
make install
After that you can try to run QGIS:
$HOME/apps/bin/qgis
If all has worked properly the QGIS application should start up and appear on your screen. If you get the error message "error while loading shared libraries", execute this command in your shell.
sudo ldconfig
If that doesn't help add the install path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${HOME}/apps/lib/
Optionally, if you already know what aspects you want in your custom build then you can skip the interactive ccmake .. part by using the cmake -D option for each aspect, e.g.:
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${HOME}/apps ..
Also, if you want to speed your build times, you can easily do it with ninja, an alternative to make with similar build options.
For example, to configure your build you can do either one of:
ccmake -G Ninja ..
cmake -G Ninja -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${HOME}/apps ..
Build and install with ninja:
ninja # (uses all cores by default; also supports the above described -jX option)
ninja install
To build even faster, you can build just the targets you need using, for example:
ninja qgis
ninja pycore
# if it's on desktop related code only:
ninja qgis_desktop
QGIS build is tunable according to your needs. Many flags are available to activate or deactivate some functionalities, here is a subset:
BUILD_WITH_QT6
: Enable (experimental) Qt6 supportWITH_3D
: Determines whether QGIS 3D library should be builtWITH_ANALYSIS
: Determines whether QGIS analysis library should be builtWITH_AUTH
: Determines whether QGIS authentication methods should be builtWITH_BINDINGS
: Determines whether Python bindings should be builtWITH_COPC
: Determines whether Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (COPC) support should be builtWITH_DESKTOP
: Determines whether QGIS desktop should be builtWITH_EPT
: Determines whether Entwine Point Cloud (EPT) support should be builtWITH_GRASS${GRASS_CACHE_VERSION}
: Determines whether GRASS ${GRASS_SEARCH_VERSION} plugin should be builtWITH_GUI
: Determines whether QGIS GUI library (and everything built on top of it) should be builtWITH_HANA
: Determines whether SAP HANA Spatial support should be builtWITH_ORACLE
: Determines whether Oracle support should be builtWITH_PDAL
: Determines whether PDAL support should be builtWITH_POSTGRESQL
: Determines whether POSTGRESQL support should be builtWITH_QGIS_PROCESS
: Determines whether the standalone "qgis_process" tool should be builtWITH_QSPATIALITE
: Determines whether QSPATIALITE sql driver should be builtWITH_SERVER
: Determines whether QGIS server should be builtWITH_SPATIALITE
: Determines whether Spatialite support should be built (required for spatialite, virtual, wfs providers)
A complete list can been extracted from the source code with the following command line:
cmake .. -N -LH | grep -B1 WITH_
In the cmake, you need to enable:
WITH_3D=True
QGIS 3D requires Qt53DExtras. These headers have been removed
from Qt upstream on Debian Buster and Ubuntu focal (20.04) based distributions.
A copy has been made in the QGIS repository in external/qt3dextra-headers
.
To compile with 3D enabled on these distributions, you need to add some cmake options:
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH={path to QGIS Git repo}/external/qt3dextra-headers/cmake
QT5_3DEXTRA_INCLUDE_DIR={path to QGIS Git repo}/external/qt3dextra-headers
QT5_3DEXTRA_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt53DExtras.so
Qt53DExtras_DIR={path to QGIS Git repo}/external/qt3dextra-headers/cmake/Qt53DExtras
Above instructions do not apply to newer versions of Debian and Ubuntu.
By using git worktree
, you can switch between different branches to use
several sources in parallel, based on the same Git configuration.
We recommend you to read the documentation about this Git command:
git commit
git worktree add ../my_new_functionality
cd ../my_new_functionality
git fetch qgis/master
git rebase -i qgis/master
# only keep the commits to be pushed
git push -u my_own_repo my_new_functionality
Instead of creating a personal installation as in the previous step you can also create debian package. This is done from the QGIS root directory, where you'll find a debian directory.
First setup a changelog entry for your distribution. For example for Debian Bookworm:
dch -l ~bookworm --force-distribution --distribution bookworm "bookworm build"
You also need to install the build dependencies. Alternatively use:
debian/rules templates
sudo mk-build-deps -i
The QGIS packages will be created with:
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
Note: Install devscripts
to get dch
and mk-build-deps
.
Note: If you have libqgis1-dev
installed, you need to remove it first
using dpkg -r libqgis1-dev
. Otherwise dpkg-buildpackage
will complain about a
build conflict.
Note: By default tests are run in the process of building and their
results are uploaded to https://cdash.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php?project=QGIS.
You can turn the tests off using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck
in front of the
build command. The upload of results can be avoided with DEB_TEST_TARGET=test
.
The packages are created in the parent directory (ie. one level up).
Install them using dpkg
. E.g.:
sudo debi
To build packages with Oracle support you need the Oracle libraries (currently 21.11) as additional build dependencies:
curl -JLO https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/2111000/oracle-instantclient-devel-21.11.0.0.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
curl -JLO https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/2111000/oracle-instantclient-basiclite-21.11.0.0.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
sudo apt install alien
fakeroot alien oracle-instantclient-devel-21.11.0.0.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient-basiclite-21.11.0.0.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
sudo dpkg -i oracle-instantclient-devel_21.11.0.0.0-2_amd64.deb oracle-instantclient-basiclite_21.11.0.0.0-2_amd64.deb
(if the client version changes it's necessary to adapt ORACLE_INCLUDEDIR
and ORACLE_LIBDIR
in debian/rules
accordingly)
The packaging files enable Oracle support if the distribution contains -oracle
:
dch -l ~sid~oracle --force-distribution --distribution sid-oracle "sid build with oracle" │
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
We assume that you have the source code of QGIS ready and created a
new subdirectory called build
or build-qt5
in it.
Distribution | Install command for packages |
---|---|
Fedora 38 Workstation | dnf install qt5-qtbase-private-devel qt5-qtwebkit-devel qt5-qtlocation-devel qt5-qtmultimedia-devel qt5-qttools-static qca-qt5-devel qca-qt5-ossl qt5-qt3d-devel python3-qt5-devel python3-qscintilla-qt5-devel qscintilla-qt5-devel python3-qscintilla-qt5 clang flex bison geos-devel gdal gdal-devel hdf5-devel sqlite-devel libspatialite-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel spatialindex-devel expat-devel netcdf-devel proj-devel qwt-qt5-devel gsl-devel PDAL PDAL-devel postgresql-devel cmake python3-gdal gdal-python-tools python3-psycopg2 python3-PyYAML python3-pygments python3-jinja2 python3-OWSLib qca-qt5-ossl qwt-qt5-devel qtkeychain-qt5-devel libzip-devel exiv2-devel PyQt-builder protobuf-lite protobuf-lite-devel libzstd-devel qt5-qtserialport-devel draco-devel python3-devel |
Fedora 37 Workstation | dnf install qt5-qtbase-private-devel qt5-qtwebkit-devel qt5-qtlocation-devel qt5-qtmultimedia-devel qt5-qttools-static qca-qt5-devel qca-qt5-ossl qt5-qt3d-devel python3-qt5-devel python3-qscintilla-qt5-devel qscintilla-qt5-devel python3-qscintilla-qt5 clang flex bison geos-devel gdal gdal-devel hdf5-devel sqlite-devel libspatialite-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel spatialindex-devel expat-devel netcdf-devel proj-devel qwt-qt5-devel gsl-devel PDAL PDAL-devel postgresql-devel cmake python3-gdal gdal-python-tools python3-psycopg2 python3-PyYAML python3-pygments python3-jinja2 python3-OWSLib qca-qt5-ossl qwt-qt5-devel qtkeychain-qt5-devel qwt-devel libzip-devel exiv2-devel python3-sip-devel protobuf-lite protobuf-lite-devel libzstd-devel qt5-qtserialport-devel draco-devel |
Fedora 35/36 Workstation | dnf install qt5-qtbase-private-devel qt5-qtwebkit-devel qt5-qtlocation-devel qt5-qtmultimedia-devel qt5-qttools-static qca-qt5-devel qca-qt5-ossl qt5-qt3d-devel python3-qt5-devel python3-qscintilla-qt5-devel qscintilla-qt5-devel python3-qscintilla-qt5 clang flex bison geos-devel gdal gdal-devel hdf5-devel sqlite-devel libspatialite-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel spatialindex-devel expat-devel netcdf-devel proj-devel qwt-qt5-devel gsl-devel PDAL PDAL-devel postgresql-devel cmake gdal-python3 gdal-python-tools python3-psycopg2 python3-PyYAML python3-pygments python3-jinja2 python3-OWSLib qca-qt5-ossl qwt-qt5-devel qtkeychain-qt5-devel qwt-devel libzip-devel exiv2-devel python3-sip-devel protobuf-lite protobuf-lite-devel libzstd-devel qt5-qtserialport-devel draco-devel |
older versions | dnf install qt5-qtbase-private-devel qt5-qtwebkit-devel qt5-qtlocation-devel qt5-qtmultimedia-devel qt5-qttools-static qca-qt5-devel qca-qt5-ossl qt5-qt3d-devel python3-qt5-devel python3-qscintilla-qt5-devel qscintilla-qt5-devel python3-qscintilla-devel python3-qscintilla-qt5 clang flex bison geos-devel gdal gdal-devel sqlite-devel libspatialite-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel qt5-qtbase-tds qt5-qtbase-odbc spatialindex-devel expat-devel proj-devel qwt-qt5-devel gsl-devel postgresql-devel cmake gdal-python3 python3-psycopg2 python3-PyYAML python3-pygments python3-jinja2 python3-OWSLib qca-qt5-ossl qwt-qt5-devel qtkeychain-qt5-devel qwt-devel sip-devel libzip-devel exiv2-devel draco-devel |
To build QGIS server additional dependencies are required:
dnf install fcgi-devel
And for building QGIS server landing page/catalog webapp:
dnf install nodejs yarnpkg
Additionally, the cmake flag WITH_SERVER_LANDINGPAGE_WEBAPP
needs to be turned on.
Make sure that your build directory is completely empty when you enter the
following command. Do never try to "re-use" an existing Qt5 build directory.
If you want to use ccmake
or other interactive tools, run the following
command in the empty build directory once before starting to use the interactive
tools.
cmake ..
If everything went OK you can finally start to compile. (As usual append a -jX
where X is the number of available cores option to make to speed up your build
process)
make
Run from the build directory
./output/bin/qgis
Or install to your system
make install
By default Fedora disables debugging calls from Qt applications. This prevents the useful debug output which is normally printed when running the unit tests.
To enable debug prints for the current user, execute:
cat > ~/.config/QtProject/qtlogging.ini << EOL
[Rules]
default.debug=true
EOL
If you're going to be developing QGIS on a Fedora system, the following extra packages are required for the various QGIS source formatting and preparation scripts.
dnf install ag ccache expect ninja-build astyle python3-autopep8 python3-mock python3-nose2 perl-YAML-Tiny
This requires latest QGIS master (>= January 25th 2024).
To save ~ 700 MB, if you want to install PROJ without its optional grids, first do:
dnf5 install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False proj-devel
Installation of all needed build dependencies:
Distribution | Install command for packages |
---|---|
Fedora 40 Workstation | dnf install qt6-qtbase-private-devel qt6-qtlocation-devel qt6-qtmultimedia-devel qt6-qttools-static qca-qt6-devel qca-qt6-ossl qt6-qt3d-devel qt6-qtwebengine-devel python3-pyqt6-devel python3-qscintilla-qt6-devel qscintilla-qt6-devel python3-qscintilla-qt6 clang flex bison geos-devel gdal gdal-devel hdf5-devel sqlite-devel libspatialite-devel qt6-qtsvg-devel spatialindex-devel expat-devel netcdf-devel proj-devel qwt-qt6-devel gsl-devel PDAL PDAL-devel postgresql-devel cmake python3-gdal gdal-python-tools python3-psycopg2 python3-PyYAML python3-pygments python3-jinja2 python3-OWSLib qca-qt6-ossl qwt-qt6-devel qtkeychain-qt6-devel libzip-devel exiv2-devel PyQt-builder protobuf-lite protobuf-lite-devel libzstd-devel qt6-qtserialport-devel draco-devel python3-devel qt6-qt5compat-devel python3-pyqt6-webengine |
Fedora 39 Workstation | dnf install qt6-qtbase-private-devel qt6-qtwebkit-devel qt6-qtlocation-devel qt6-qtmultimedia-devel qt6-qttools-static qca-qt6-devel qt6-qtwebengine-devel qca-qt6-ossl qt6-qt3d-devel python3-qt6-devel python3-qscintilla-qt6-devel qscintilla-qt6-devel python3-qscintilla-qt6 clang flex bison geos-devel gdal gdal-devel hdf5-devel sqlite-devel libspatialite-devel qt6-qtsvg-devel spatialindex-devel expat-devel netcdf-devel proj-devel qwt-qt6-devel gsl-devel PDAL PDAL-devel postgresql-devel cmake python3-gdal gdal-python-tools python3-psycopg2 python3-PyYAML python3-pygments python3-jinja2 python3-OWSLib qca-qt6-ossl qwt-qt6-devel qtkeychain-qt6-devel libzip-devel exiv2-devel PyQt-builder protobuf-lite protobuf-lite-devel libzstd-devel qt6-qtserialport-devel draco-devel python3-devel qt6-qt5compat-devel |
To build,
cmake .. -DBUILD_WITH_QT6=ON -DWITH_QTWEBKIT=OFF -DWITH_QTWEBENGINE=ON
This section describes how to build QGIS using Visual Studio (MSVC) 2019 on Windows. The official Windows packages are built using OSGeo4W.
This section describes the setup required to allow Visual Studio to be used to build QGIS.
Download and install the free (as in free beer) Community installer
Select "Desktop Development with C++"
Download and install following packages:
- CMake
- GNU flex, GNU bison and GIT with cygwin 64bit
- OSGeo4W
- ninja: Copy the
ninja.exe
toC:\OSGeo4W\bin\
For the QGIS build you need to install following packages from cygwin:
- bison
- flex
- git (even if you already have Git for Windows installed)
and from OSGeo4W (select Advanced Install):
-
qgis-dev-deps
-
This will also select packages the above packages depend on.
-
Note: If you install other packages, this might cause issues. Particularly, make sure not to install the msinttypes package. It installs a stdint.h file in
OSGeo4W\include
, that conflicts with Visual Studio own stdint.h, which for example breaks the build of the virtual layer provider.
-
If you intend to also build all the dependencies, you can refer to the OSGeo4W repository.
Choose a directory to store the QGIS source code. For example, to put it in the OSGeo4W install, navigate there:
cd C:\OSGeo4W
This directory will be assumed for all instructions that follow.
On the command prompt clone the QGIS source from
git to the source directory QGIS
:
git clone git://github.com/qgis/QGIS.git
This requires Git. If you have Git for Windows on your PATH already, you can do this from a normal command prompt. If you do not, you can use the Git package that was installed as part of Cygwin by opening a Cygwin[64] Terminal
And, to avoid Git in Windows reporting changes to files not actually modified:
cd QGIS
git config core.filemode false
The official Windows packages are made in OSGeo4W. Also standalone MSI installers are also produced using the packages from OSGeo4W.
The nightly build of master (package qgis-dev) is made with the OSGeo4W build recipe.
There are others for the long-term release build (qgis-ltr), the nightly of the next long-term point release (qgis-ltr-dev), the latest release (qgis), the nightly build of the next point release (qgis-rel-dev). All of those are currently based on Qt5. A build recipe for master with Qt6 is available as qgis-qt6-dev.
To setup a build environment (including Visual C++ if not already installed) and to build the nightly run in a command line (cmd):
mkdir osgeo4w-build
cd osgeo4w-build
curl -JLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jef-n/OSGeo4W/refs/heads/master/bootstrap.cmd
curl -JLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jef-n/OSGeo4W/refs/heads/master/bootstrap.sh
bootstrap.cmd qgis-dev
To build other packages you can simply replace qgis-dev with other packages.
Calling bootstrap.cmd
without any arguments will build all packages
(including all dependencies).
After the build is succeeded the OSGeo4W packages will be in x86_64/
.
To install the package you can add the osgeo4w-build
directory as User URL
in the OSGeo4W installer and select your qgis-dev
package.
The MSIs are created with scripts\msis.sh
(actually scripts/creatmsi.pl
).
With this approach you can cross build a Windows binary on Linux using mingw64 in a Docker container.
To build on Linux from your QGIS sources directory, launch:
ms-windows/mingw/build.sh
After a successful build, you will find two packages in the QGIS sources directory:
- qgis-portable-win64.zip (QGIS for Windows 64bit)
- qgis-portable-win64-debugsym.zip (debug symbols)
This method is also used in the continuous integrations process. After each pull request the two packages mentioned above are stored as GitHub actions artifacts and are available for download making it possible to quickly test changes on Windows.
This is the simplest way, but you need to have Docker installed on your system.
You can use a Docker image to cross build QGIS by calling the script ms-windows/mxe/build.sh from the root directory of QGIS repository.
=== Building without Docker ====
This requires to install mxe toolchain on your system and build all dependencies by yourself.
Please follow the instructions on mxe website to setup your building toolchain http://mxe.cc/, take note of the path where you have installed mxe.
Please see README.md under ms-windows/mxe for detailed instructions and for the list of dependencies that need to be built in mxe before attempting to build QGIS.
Edit the build-mxe.sh script and optionally adjust the path where your mxe installation is located, you can also change the build and release directories.
Copy and unzip on the Windows machine package produced by the build and launch the qgis binary: no installation is required.
Vcpkg is a free and open source cross platform ecosystem for libraries. It provides precise control over the versions of dependencies that are used.
- Download and install the free (as in free beer) Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition.
- Obtain winflexbison.
There are two ways, to build with vcpkg. Either you download an sdk, which allows you to reuse dependencies that are already built. This is generally easier and recommended. It is also possible to build all dependencies yourself, which gives you more control over the dependencies.
- Download and unzip SDK. Get the latest QGIS master SDK.
- Build
We will now configure QGIS.
Open a Developer PowerShell for VS 2022
# We assume you have a copy of the QGIS source code available
# and have changed the working directory into it
# Configure
cmake -S . \
-B build \
-DSDK_PATH="path/to/vcpkg-export-[date]" \
-DBUILD_WITH_QT6=ON \
-DWITH_QTWEBKIT=OFF \
-DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows-release \
-DFLEX_EXECUTABLE="path/to/flex-executable" \
-DBISON_EXECUTABLE="path/to/bison-executable"
This will provide you with a configured project. You can either build it directly from the command line.
# Build
# Note: you can also use RelWithDebInfo to have debug symbols in your build
cmake --build build --config Release
Or you can open the generated .sln
file in the build
folder with Visual Studio.
This will allow you to use all the tools that this IDE has to offer.
It is also possible to build all the dependencies locally. This will require some time, cpu and disk space.
# We assume you have a copy of the QGIS source code available
# and have changed the working directory into it
# Configure
cmake -S . \
-B build \
-D WITH_VCPKG \
-D BUILD_WITH_QT6=ON \
-D WITH_QTWEBKIT=OFF \
-D VCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows-release \
-D VCPKG_HOST_TRIPLET=x64-windows-release
Manage dependency versions
The dependencies are defined in the file vcpkg/vcpkg.json
.
This file defines which versions of registries are used.
To update to the most recent version, you can use the command vcpkg x-update-baseline --x-manifest-root=vcpkg
.
If you want to patch or update a specific dependency, you can copy the port for this
dependency into the folder vcpkg/ports
. Whenever the build is reconfigured, it will check for dependencies that need to be rebuilt.
If you want to test QGIS, easiest option is to download and install all-in-one self-containing bundle directly from
https://qgis.org/downloads/macos
On the other hand, if you want to build or develop QGIS on your own, you need a set of dependencies and tools. These instructions will use the same set of dependencies that are used for all-in-one QGIS bundle, but you can build QGIS with Homebrew, MacPorts or Conda dependencies too.
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Mac-Packager
Included are notes for building on latest Mac OS X with latest updates installed. The build uses clang compiler.
Parallel Compilation: On multiprocessor/multicore Macs, it's possible to speed up compilation, but it's not automatic. Whenever you type "make" (but NOT "make install"), instead type:
make -j [#cpus]
Replace [#cpus] with the number of cores and/or processors your Mac has. To find out how many CPUs you have available, run the following in Terminal:
/usr/sbin/sysctl -n hw.ncpu
Developer tools are not a part of a standard OS X installation. As minimum you require command line tools
sudo xcode-select --install
but installation of Xcode from the App Store is recommended too.
For example install Homebrew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
and these development/build tools
brew install git cmake ninja pkg-config wget bash-completion curl gnu-sed coreutils ccache libtool astyle help2man autoconf automake pandoc
if you have these tools installed from MacPorts or Conda, it is the same, but we will need to be able to
run cmake
and others from Terminal in the following steps
To build QGIS, we need Qt5 and FOSS dependencies on hand. The Qt5 version ideally should match the version that was used to build dependency package.
Download the latest QGIS-Deps install script, qt package and QGIS-Deps packages from
https://qgis.org/downloads/macos/deps
You should have one bash script and two tar archive in your download folder.
Run the install script to install Qt and QGIS-Deps to /opt/
area. You need
root privileges or have write access to /opt/Qt
and /opt/QGIS
.
Alternatively you can download and install Qt Open Source for MacOS from the
in the same version as referenced in the install script. It must be installed in /opt/Qt
Note that the QGIS-Deps package is not yet signed, so you may need to add Terminal to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Developer Tools or manually accept usage of the libraries when asked by system.
Unzip the QGIS source to a working folder of your choice. If you are reading this from the source, you've already done this.
If you want to experiment with the latest development sources, go to the github QGIS project page:
It should default to the master branch. Click the Downloads button and select Download .tar.gz. Double-click the tarball to unzip it.
Alternatively, use git and clone the repository by
git clone git://github.com/qgis/QGIS.git
CMake supports out of source build so we will create a 'build' dir for the
build process. OS X uses ${HOME}/Applications
as a standard user app folder (it
gives it the system app folder icon). If you have the correct permissions you
may want to build straight into your /Applications
folder. The instructions
below assume you are building into a ${HOME}/Applications
directory.
In a Terminal cd to the qgis source folder previously downloaded, then:
cd ..
mkdir build
cd build
QGIS_DEPS_VERSION=0.9;\
QT_VERSION=5.15.2;\
PATH=/opt/QGIS/qgis-deps-${QGIS_DEPS_VERSION}/stage/bin:$PATH;\
cmake \
-D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/Applications \
-D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-D QGIS_MAC_DEPS_DIR=/opt/QGIS/qgis-deps-${QGIS_DEPS_VERSION}/stage \
-D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/Qt/${QT_VERSION}/clang_64 \
../QGIS
Note: Don't forget the ../QGIS
on the last line, which tells CMake to look for the source files.
Note: Double check on the screen output that all libraries are picked from QGIS-Deps /opt/QGIS
and not from system /usr/lib
or Homebrew's /usr/local/
or system Frameworks /Library/Frameworks/
.
Especially check Proj, GDAL, sqlite3 and Python paths.
After the initial Terminal configure, you can use ccmake to make further changes:
cd build
ccmake ../QGIS
Now we can start the build process (remember the parallel compilation note at the beginning, this is a good place to use it, if you can):
make -j [#cpus]
Now you can run the QGIS from build directory by ./output/bin/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/QGIS
If all built without errors you can then install it:
make install
or, for an /Applications build:
sudo make install
For running the installed QGIS, you need to keep the dependencies in /opt/
folder in place.
If you want to create bundle that runs without these dependencies, please read the documentation in project
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Mac-Packager
Requires: Ubuntu / Debian derived distro
These notes are for Ubuntu - other versions and Debian derived distros may require slight variations in package names.
Note the git repo below will change to the default QGIS repo once this work is integrated into master.
git remote add blazek git://github.com/blazek/Quantum-GIS.git
git fetch blazek
git branch --track wcs2 blazek/wcs2
git checkout wcs2
cd /var/www/
sudo mkdir wcs
sudo chown timlinux wcs
cd wcs/
mkdir cgi-bin
cd cgi-bin/
sudo apt-get install cgi-mapserver
Set the contents of /var/www/wcs/cgi-bin/wcstest-1.9.0
to:
#! /bin/sh
MS_MAPFILE=/var/www/wcs/testdata/qgis-1.9.0/raster/wcs.map
export MS_MAPFILE
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/mapserv
Then do:
chmod +x var/www/wcs/cgi-bin/wcstest-1.9.0
mkdir -p /var/www/wcs/testdata/qgis-1.9.0/raster/
cd /var/www/wcs/testdata/qgis-1.9.0/raster/
cp -r /home/timlinux/QGIS/tests/testdata/raster/* .
Edit /var/www/wcs/testdata/qgis-1.9.0/raster/wcs.map
and set the shapepath to this:
SHAPEPATH "/var/www/wcs/testdata/qgis-1.9.0/raster"
Then create /var/www/wcs/7-wcs.example.com.conf
setting the contents to this:
<VirtualHost*:80>
ServerName wcs.example.com
ServerAdmin wcs-admin@example.com
LogLevel warn
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{forensic-id}n\"" combined
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/wcs_example.com/access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/wcs_example.com/error.log
DocumentRoot /var/www/wcs/html
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/wcs/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/var/www/wcs/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /1.9.0/wcs /cgi-bin/wcstest-1.9.0 [PT]
</VirtualHost>
mkdir html
vim html/index.html
Set the contents to:
This is the test platform for QGIS' wcs client. You can use these services
from QGIS directly (to try out WCS for example) by pointing your QGIS to:
http://wcs.example.com/1.9.0/wcs
sudo mkdir /var/log/apache2/wcs_example.com
sudo chown www-data /var/log/apache2/wcs_example.com
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
sudo ln -s /var/www/wcs/7-wcs.example.com.conf .
cd /var/www/wcs/
sudo a2ensite 7-wcs.example.com.conf
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
sudo tail -f /var/log/apache2/wcs_example.com/error.log
Assumption: You know how to make a working build environment and want to deploy it under Jenkins for continuous integration testing now.
These notes are terse, I will expand on them later as the need arises. The procedure is:
- Install Jenkins and get it configured according to your own preferences
- Make sure you have the git, github, junit etc plugins installed. A complete
list of the plugins I have installed follows (note that you almost certainly
don't need evey plugin listed here):
- External Monitor Job Type Plugin
- LDAP Plugin
- pam-auth
- javadoc
- ant
- Jenkins Subversion Plug-in
- Git Plugin
- Maven 2 Project Plugin
- Jenkins SLOCCount Plug-in
- Jenkins Sounds plugin
- Jenkins Translation Assistance plugin
- ruby-runtime
- Jenkins CVS Plug-in
- Coverage/Complexity Scatter Plot PlugIn
- Status Monitor Plugin
- Git Parameter Plug-In
- github-api
- GitHub plugin
- Jenkins Violations plugin
- git-notes Plugin
- Twitter plugin
- Jenkins Cobertura Plugin
- Jenkins Gravatar plugin
- Jenkins SSH Slaves plugin
- Create a Job called 'QGIS'
- Use the following options for your job:
- Job Name: QGIS
- Job Type: Build a free-style software project
- Tick enable project based security (you need to elsewhere configure your Jenkins security to per project settings)
- Allow Anonymous user Read and Discover access
- Set the github project to https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/
- Set source code management to Git
- Set repository url to git://github.com/qgis/QGIS.git
- In advanced repository url settings set refspec to
+refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
- Set branch to build to master
- Repository Browser: Auto
- Build triggers: set to Poll SCM and set schedule to
*****
(polls every minute) - Build - Execute shell and set shell script to:
cd build
cmake ..
xvfb-run --auto-servernum --server-num=1 \
--server-args="-screen 0 1024x768x24" \
make Experimental || true
if [ -f Testing/TAG ] ; then
xsltproc ../tests/ctest2junix.xsl \
Testing/`head -n 1 < Testing/TAG`/Test.xml > \
CTestResults.xml
fi
- Add Junit post build action and set 'Publish Junit test result report' to:
build/CTestResults.xml
- Email notification: Send separate e-mails to individuals who broke the build
- Jenkins sounds - set up sounds for Failure, Success and Unstable.
- Save
Now open the Job dash board and push something to QGIS and wait a minute to validate automated builds work.
Note: You will need to log in to the Jenkins user account and go to
/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/QGIS/workspace, then make a build
directory and run
the initial cmake setup and then do test build. This process is the same as
described elsewhere in this doc.
I based some of the set up from this nice blog article here:
http://alexott.blogspot.com/2012/03/jenkins-cmakectest.html
If you are interested in seeing embedded debug output, change the following CMake option:
-D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG # (or RELWITHDEBINFO)
This will flood your terminal or system log with lots of useful output from QgsDebugMsg() calls in source code.
If you would like to run the test suite, you will need to do so from the build directory, as it will not work with the installed/bundled app. First set the CMake option to enable tests:
-D ENABLE_TESTS=TRUE
Then run all tests from build directory:
cd build
make test
To run all tests and report to http://cdash.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php?project=QGIS
cd build
make Experimental
You can define the host name reported via 'make Experimental' by setting a CMake option:
-D SITE="my.domain.org"
To run specific test(s) (see 'man ctest'):
cd build
# show listing of tests, without running them
ctest --show-only
# run specific C++ or Python test(s) matching a regular expression
ctest --verbose --tests-regex SomeTestName
The following people have contributed to this document:
-
Windows MINGW Section
- Tim Sutton, Godofredo Contreras 2006
- CMake additions Magnus Homann 2007
- Python additions Martin Dobias 2007
- With thanks to Tisham Dhar for preparing the initial msys environment
-
Windows MSVC Section (Detailed install)
- David Willis 2007
- MSVC install additions Tim Sutton 2007
- PostgreSQL, Qt compile, SIP, Python, AutoExp additions Juergen Fischer 2007
-
Windows MSVC Section (Simplified install)
- Tim Sutton 2007
- Juergen Fischer 2007
- Florian Hillen 2010
-
OSX Section
- Tim Sutton 2007
- With special thanks to Tom Elwertowski and William Kyngesburye
- Larry Shaffer 2012
- Peter Petrik 2020
-
GNU/Linux Section
- Tim Sutton 2006
- Debian package section: Juergen Fischer 2008
-
WCS Test Server Section
- Tim Sutton, Radim Blazek 2012
-
Jenkins CI Configuration
- Tim Sutton 2012
-
Latex Generator
- Tim Sutton 2011
-
Debug Output/Tests Section
- Larry Shaffer 2012, by way of 'Test Friday' Tim Sutton
-
MXE/Mingw64 section
- Alessandro Pasotti (2018-2021)