kdevelop on nixos
issue 1
i’ve adapted to a nixos only desktop and i’m facing new problems every day, lately i wanted to use kdevelop but it wasn’t able to import a normal ‘Makefile’based project. next i installed lots of packages somehow mentioned at [1]. still that alone didn’t help so i ran:
kbuildsycoca4
kbuildsycoca4 is a utility which generates a cache of .desktop files and such to be used by programs. PovAddict#kde-devel@irc.freenode.net recommended to set KDEDIRS correctly because when doing so running kbuildsycoca4 manually wouldn’t be neccessary.
not sure how to solve this problem correctly yet but in case i find out i will add it to this post.
issue 2
another point which bugs me is that auto-completion doesn’t work correctly as there is no such thing as /usr/include on nixos as one might expect when coming from a different linux distribution. didn’t find a solution here yet either…
links
[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDevelop4/HowToCompile
