This page provides detailed instructions for installing Phairwell from the SVN repository.

Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

• Make sure you have Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 installed on your system
• If not, you can find installation file under \\tanglefoot\Nobackup\
• You will need an image mounting utility. Most people use Daemon Tools Lite

Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

• Download VS 2008 SP1 and then install it. Restart your computer if needed.

Install SVN client

• Make sure you have a SVN client installed. Most people use TortoiseSVN.

Check out Phairwell project files from the repository:

• Create a folder (e.g. C:\Phairwell) so you can check out the repository to that folder.
• Right click the folder and select “SVN Checkout…”, then use “svn+ssh://username@tanglefoot.cs.byu.edu/lab/mtrosck/VS Qt Phairwell/QtCreator Phairwell” as URL. Replace “username” with your own username.
• Login multiple times to complete the check out.

Download, install, and configure QT 4.5:

• Download Qt SDK for Open Source C++ development on Windows
• Run the installation file and use default location C:\Qt\2009.04
• Use correct command prompt tool to set up appropriate environment variables
  • For 32bit Windows, open Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt (Under Visual Studio Tools)
  • For 64bit Windows, open Visual Studio 2008 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt (Under Visual Studio Tools)
• Change into the Qt directory “cd C:\Qt\2009.04\qt”
• Configure qt
  • For Windows: run “C:\Qt\2009.04\qt>configure -opensource -ltcg -shared -no-qt3support -no-webkit -nomake examples -nomake demos -release -platform win32-msvc2008” and then type “y” to accept the opensource license terms.
  • For Linux: Leave out the -ltcg flag.
  • If qmake fails with error message complaining about not finding windows.h, manually add path “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a\Include” to the “INCLUDE=” line in “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat”, and then run “vcvars32.bat”. Then try the configure line again.
  • If qmake fails with error message complaining about “cannot open input file 'ole32.lib'”, make sure you have “Lib” and “Include” folders under “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A”. Copy them from other computers if you have to. Then manually add lib path “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib” to the “LIB=” line in “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat”, and then run “vcvars32.bat”. Then try the configure line again.
• Run “nmake” (Warning: this could take hours. Go read a few papers or something.)
  • If nmake complains about “mt.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command”, make sure your “Bin” folder under “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A” is not empty and does have this file. If not, copy the folder from another computer. Manually add path “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin” to the “PATH=” line in “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat”, and then run “vcvars32.bat”. Then try nmake again.

** If nmake complains about a bunch of “Unresolved external symbols”, then **

• Run “nmake confclean” at the command prompt
  • Rerun “configure” command with the additional flag “-no-webkit”
  • Run “nmake” again

Download and install OpenCV:

• Get OpenCV 1.0 SDK from “\\tanglefoot\public\Qt Installation files”
• Run the installation file and make sure to use the default location “C:\Program Files\OpenCV”.

Test Your Phairwell Installation

• Open QT Creator
• Click Tools - Options and then select Qt4 from the left panel. Make sure your Qt path is specified with the correct MSVC Version (9.0 for VS Studio 2009). Click Apply.
• Open project file “VS Qt Phairwell.pro”
• Double click the pro file and remove the line “CONFIG = debug”. Then save all.
• Add environment variable “OPENCVDIR” with path “C:\Program Files\OpenCV”
• Click Build - Clean All
• Click Build - Build All

You will also need Aviones, the UAV simulator

• Get the latest version from \\tanglefoot\public. We are using the 8-24-09 version right now.

Well done! You have successfully installed Phairwell. What an achievement! Now go celebrate!