Gitbumr

Qt based Git client using a rust backend.

Rust+Qt bindings

The project uses rust-qt-binding-generator to generate both a rust interface and a C++ interface for use by Qt. Since generating bindings happens only when the interface changes, it's a manual build step.

Checking out the project, and build a release executable cargo build --release, then add the executable to your path. Run rust_qt_binding_generator binding.json in this project root folder, to regenerate the binding code.

Windows requirements

The project has a QtCreator project, which doubles as a project file and a makefile for qmake.

• Qt 5.11.2
• Visual Studio 2017 and Native SDK

Windows CLI build steps can be found in the appveyor.yml build pec.

QtCreator has some gotchas:

• After editing the project file, manually run qmake by right-clicking the top node in Projects pane
• When adding qml components, Use Tools -> QML/JS -> Reset Code Model, to fix IDE errors
• Qt+Win+OpenGL is host to a multitude of weird issues and crashes. There are many env settings you can fiddle with here. I put set QT_OPENGL=angle in the project run settings, otherwise the executable will crash upon startup, due to OpenGL shader incompatabilities or some such nonsense.

Other notes

• app/res/gitbumr.rc should be windows-1252 encoded
• itemProperties in binding.json should be sorted alphabetically to avoid confusion since rust_qt_binding_generator sorts these when generating the user role index used to access the values in QML.

Ubuntu requirements

These are still incomplete.

• For Ubuntu 18 the following packages should be installed build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev libxrender1 libfontconfig1 qt5-qmake
• rust also requires libssl-dev pkg-config

Data/viz stuffs https://sourcerer.io/stofte https://github.com/erikbern/git-of-theseus https://i.stack.imgur.com/AbOjQ.png

Qt

• https://github.com/Mokolea/SimpleQtLogger
• https://github.com/martinrotter/qt5-minimalistic-builds
• https://github.com/mfreiholz/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System