apt-get install -y qgis cmake-curses-gui build-essential \
git gitg meld \
qtcreator qt4-designer \
flex bison libgeos-dev libgdal1-dev \
pyqt4-dev-tools libgsl0-dev libexpat1-dev libproj-dev \
libqwt-dev libspatialindex-dev libqscintilla2-dev\
libqscintilla2-dev python-qscintilla2 python-dev python-sip-dev \
python-qt4-dev postgresql-client-9.3 \
libfcgi-dev
Open QtCreator.
Now do File -> Open File or Project
Select the CMakeLists.txt file in the top level of your QGIS source tree.
Change the Default build path from:
/home/timlinux/dev/cpp/build-QGIS-Desktop-Default
to
/home/timlinux/dev/cpp/QGIS/build
Make the build directory if needed using the Browse... button. Also replace
/home/timlinux/dev with appropriate base path the username etc.
Click on configure project
It should complete with the sentence in the General Messages view:
-- Build files have been written to: /home/timlinux/dev/cpp/QGIS/build
Now tweak the CMake configuration:
Click on projects on the left hand side icons.
On the Build & Run tab enter the following into CMake arguments:
-DQWT_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/qwt -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/qgis-master -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so -DQSCINTILLA_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/qt4 -DQWT_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libqwt.so
Now click the build hammer icon on the left icons
Note the above arguments assume you are using Ubuntu 14.04 64
In projects, build & run, under Build steps -> Make click Details and
enter:
-j8 in the additional arguments box
(replace 8 with the number of cores you can build with)
Click the hammer again and you should get a much faster build.
In Projects -> build and run -> Run tab change Run configuration to qgis
then press the green triangle with the ladybug to start debugging