Part 1: Getting started

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Creating a new KDevelop project

After starting KDevelop, from the Project menu select "New Project..." and open the tree structure to select "Simple KDE Application" in C++/KDE, and enter the application name, where you want the project stored, your name, etc and press "Next >", "Next >", "Next >", and finally "Finish".

KDevelop has now been setup to allow us to develop our KDE application and has created some template code to get us started.

Compiling and running the template code

Before we can compile the code we need to run automake and autoconf. First we run automake by selecting "Run automake & friends" from the Build menu. Then we run autoconf by selecting "Run Configure" from the Build menu.

We can now compile "Build Project" and run the application "Execute Program", either from the Build menu, the KDevelop toolbar or keyboard shortcuts.

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