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pencil: Revision 5

> "Pencil"<http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/> is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X and Windows. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

I wanted to run it under Linux (without "wine"<http://winehq.org>) so I tried to compile:

^ Get mac version of source

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wget http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/contents/Download/pencil-0.4.2b-mac-src.tgz
tar xvfz pencil-0.4.2b-mac-src.tgz
cd pencil-0.4.2b-mac-src
.pre

^ Use local version of ming library

Edit `pencil.pro` and change `LIBS` to:

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LIBS += -lming
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and remove binary verison of `libming.a` with:

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rm lib/libming.a
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You will also have to comment out one line in `src/interface/editor.cpp`

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updateMaxFrame();
// object->exportMovie(1, maxFrame, view, exportSize, filePath, fps);
return true;
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^ Build it

Create `Makefile` and build project:

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qmake-qt4
make
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All required changes to source are also available as single diff file: {file: pencil-0.4.2b-linux.diff}

{image: pencil-linux.png}

^ Related

After compiling it, I went to Google and searched for `exportMovie` (it's easy once you *know* what to do :-) and found "following blog post"<http://www.blendernation.com/2007/06/03/pencil-2d-animation-software/> which had reference to same fix for compilation (I didn't need `-lungif` to make it work)