WHAT IS THIS
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Stopmotion is a program to create stop motion animations.
See http://linuxstopmotion.org for more info.


INSTALLATION
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1) qmake
2) sudo make install

You need the following packages installed to compile:
    - make and gcc (build-essential)
    - gdb
    - Qt4 (libqt4-dev and qt4-dev-tools)
    - tar (libtar-dev)
    - XML2 (libxml2-dev)
    - vorbisfile (libvorbis-dev)
    - pkg-config

WHO CAN USE IT
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Everyone can use this application as it is distributed under the
GPL licence (See the file COPYING for more details).


DO YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE?
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Do not hesitate to contact us if you want to contribute with translations,
graphics, code, +++ 

The mailing list is at linuxstopmotion-users-devs@lists.sourceforge.net

Your help is very much appreciated.

DEVELOPMENT
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After qmake, the following make targets are available:

make           # build a release version of the project, called stopmotion
make debug     # build a debug version of the project, called stopmotion-d
make all       # build both debug and release versions
make test      # build and run the unit tests
make clean     # remove all build products
make install   # install stopmotion
make uninstall # remove installation

To install in a specific location:

qmake PREFIX=/specific/location HTML_PATH=/docs/go/here TRANSLATIONS_PATH=/translations/go/here
sudo make install

The defines are optional. PREFIX defaults to /usr/local.
HTML_PATH defaults to ${PREFIX}/share/doc/stopmotion/html.
TRANSLATIONS_PATH defaults to ${PREFIX}/share/doc/stopmotion/translations.

To put the files somewhere before copying them for installation (after qmake):

make INSTALL_ROOT=/somewhere/writeable install
cp -fr /somewhere/writeable/* /

PREFIX is where the files will ultimately end up. make install will put them in
$(INSTALL_ROOT)$(PREFIX)
