GCompris

I finally decided to start my journey to open source contribution with KDE’s GCompris-qt. It mainly uses QML and Javascript for creating the activities, and C++ for the core functionality.

Quoting from their docs,

GCompris is an educaional software suite comprising of numerous activities from children aged 2-10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

Setting up GCompris (Building from source)

In order to build GCompris from source (for Debian/Ubuntu systems), first we need to install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install cmake-curses-gui # Optional
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev

Installing Qt5 and it’s libraries

sudo apt-get install qt5-default

sudo apt-get install qtdeclarative5-dev

sudo apt-get install qtmultimedia5-dev

sudo apt-get install libqt5svg5-dev

sudo apt-get install libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev

sudo apt-get install libqt5sensors5-dev

sudo apt-get install qml-module-qtquick-particles2

sudo apt-get install qttools5-dev-tools

Compilation

GCompris uses cmake for compilation. Minimum version of cmake is 2.8, and the recommended version is 3.5.1

Source Code Link

Get the source code:

git clone https://github.com/gcompris/GCompris-qt

Initialise the git submodules

cd gcompris
git submodule init && git submodule update

Download the latest version of Qt (recommended version 5.5) and open up QtCreator. Start QtCreator and open the project file CMakeLists.txt at the root of the source code. Create a build, and run it via QtCreator.