__ __ ______ _____ ________ __ __ | \ _ | \ / \ | \| \ | \ | \ | $$ / \ | $$| $$$$$$\ \$$$$$ \$$$$$$$$ | $$ | $$ | $$/ $\| $$| $$___\$$ | $$ | $$ ______ \$$\/ $$ | $$ $$$\ $$ \$$ \ __ | $$ | $$| \ >$$ $$ | $$ $$\$$\$$ _\$$$$$$\| \ | $$ | $$ \$$$$$$/ $$$$\ | $$$$ \$$$$| \__| $$| $$__| $$ | $$ | $$ \$$\ | $$$ \$$$ \$$ $$ \$$ $$ | $$ | $$ | $$ \$$ \$$ \$$$$$$ \$$$$$$ \$$ \$$ \$$ Copyright 2001 - 2023 by Joe Taylor, K1JT. This project doesn't work on MS Windows. This is because the environment required to build Hamlib, a MinGW environment, is not suitable for building the WSJT-X application. The WSJT-X build, because of the way Qt applications must be built, requires a modified MS DOS command environment. The two environments are incompatible and cannot easily be used in a common build script like the one in this project. Although this project will probably work on Apple Mac OS X, it is incomplete since on that platform there are several other dependencies and tools required that are not available as standard on a Mac. See the WSJT-X project for a suitable recipe for building WSJT-X on a Mac. Debian and RPM packages generated directly by this project are not yet suitable for submission to official distributions. This is mainly due to limitations in the CPack package generators invoked by CPack. This doesn't preclude the two phase build method being used to make and build from a source tarball. It just means that package maintainers will probably have to develop their own package control files. Currently this project makes use of a forked Hamlib git repository, use of forks of dependent libraries is not recommended by official Linux distributions but we have little choice at present. All patches made in the Hamlib fork are being submitted upstream so soon a fork will not be required. At this point a snapshot of the Hamlib git master may be substituted. Using a snapshot (or a patch generated from it) may also be problematic as well. When the Hamlib team make a release of Hamlib v3 and that is accepted into the official Linux repositories; the need for a fork or snapshot will no longer be necessary. At that point this project will probably be obsolete as the WSJT-X build script and source kit will be sufficient.