Installation

Downloading LongQT, Grapher and Grid Editor

Downloads for Mac and Windows can be found at https://hundlab.engineering.osu.edu/research/LongQt. The downloads should contain (.app)s or (.exe)s for each of the different LongQt components.

Windows

No installation is necessary. Move the executables to a continent location and run from there.

Mac

Hold the control key and click on the application. Select "Open" and a prompt will ask you if you would like to run an application from an unidentified developer select "Open" and LongQt should start. Do this for each of the apps. To install drag LongQt (and Grapher and Grid Editor) into the Apps folder. Installation is not necessary but it will allow LongQt to be run from a finder search.

Installation from source

LongQt depends on the Qt Application Framework. There is an open source version of Qt that can be used for free from their website, the commercial version should not be necessary. Any version of Qt beyond 5 should work (version 5.9 was used for development). It is best to install QtCreator (which should be a part of the Qt downlaod).

Windows and Mac

Clone recursively or download the github repository https://github.com/hundlab/LongQt. If you did not clone LongQt recursively then you still need the model repository. Get this by cloning or downloading LongQt-model from https://github.com/hundlab/LongQt-model. Then move the LongQt-model folder into the LongQt folder and rename it to modellib. To use simply open QtCreator and select open existing project and open the .pro file located in the LongQt folder. There should be a .pro file for LongQt, Grapher and Grid Editor.

Linux

Install git, gcc or clang, make and qt5 from your distributions repository. On ubuntu to do this just run

apt-get install qt5-default git build-essential

Then clone recursively from https://github.com/hundlab/LongQt

git clone --recursive https://github.com/hundlab/LongQt.git

At this point open the project in qtcreator and select build or to build from the command line run

qmake LongQt.pro
make

To install find the compiled executable (from a qtcreator build it will be in the build directory specified by qtcreator, from a command line build it will be in LongQt/build) and move it to somewhere in the path (e.g. /usr/local/bin)

Troubleshooting

For issues contact hundlab