Development
From Sailcut
The current programmers of Sailcut CAD are Robert Lainé and Jeremy Lainé. If you want to find out about Sailcut CAD's internals you can have a look at the source code documentation.
You can help the Sailcut CAD project even if you are not a programmer, for instance by translating Sailcut or documenting Sailcut. You might consider subscribing to the development mailing list.
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Accessing the source code
The Sailcut CAD source code is managed using Subversion.
- To browse the Subversion tree, you use the ViewVC web interface
- To retrieve the latest version of the code using the svn command-line tool, cd to the directory of your choice and type the following information:
svn co https://sailcut.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sailcut/trunk/sailcut
- For Windows users, a more convenient way to access the code is to use the TortoiseSVN graphic user interface.
Compiling the source code
Requirements
Sailcut CAD should compile on a wide variety of systems provided you have a C++ compiler, CMake and the Qt toolkit.
You can download CMake from http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
You can download the LGPL/Free version of the Qt toolkit from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads.
Build procedure
To compile Sailcut CAD from source, run the following from the directory containing the code:
mkdir build cd build cmake .. make
If you wish to install the results you would then run:
make install
