QGroundControl Open Source Micro Air Vehicle Ground Control Station

Project: http://qgroundcontrol.org

Files: http://github.com/pixhawk/qgroundcontrol http://github.com/pixhawk/mavlink

• PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE MAVLINK LIBRARY IN ORDER TO COMPILE THIS APPLICATION *

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Mac OS X

To build on Mac OS X (10.5 or later):

Install SDL

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

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

1) Clone the MAVLINK repository : git clone [email protected]: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

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

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 [email protected]:pixhawk/mavlink.git git clone [email protected]: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.

Windows

Windows XP:

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.