Group: LibreDWG

This is the GNU LibreDWG hackers' wiki. For general information about the project, please check the official website.

This wiki is mainly intended to help developers or advanced users checkout the latest source code, compile, test, modify and submit changes to LibreDWG. Feel free to contribute to this page. If you are creating a new page, please put it under the LibreDWG tree, eg. http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibreDWG/Testing.

LibreDWG's source code and administrative tools (mailing lists, bug, patch and support trackers) are hosted at Savannah: [1].

There is no binary release yet. Therefore, anyone who wants to test LibreDWG will have to checkout and compile.

Checking out the latest source code

The source code is hosted in a git repository. Check out git's website if you don't know what git is. To check out as an anonymous user:

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/libredwg.git

Compiling

You need basic development tools and pslib to compile libredwg. In debian-like distributions, install the build-essential and pslib-dev packages. Cd to the libredwg folder created by git, and type:

make
sudo make install
make check

If you get any errors, please contact us through the mailing list.

Testing

LibreDWG comes with several examples (under the examples folder) that can be used for testing purposes. The most advanced example is testSVG.

cd examples
./testSVG yourdwgfile.dwg > yourconverteddwgfile.svg

If you get any errors (specially segfaults) and want to submit a bug, please attach a file with your output. To redirect all output, including stderr to a file:

./testSVG yourdwgfile.dwg 2&> test.out

If possible, add a link to the tested DWG file to the submission. We can't do much if we can't access the file. Don't attach DWG files to the submission, specially if you don't have copy rights over them.