Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-12 Thread JonY
On 5/13/2012 00:21, MARTIN Pierre wrote: > Dear list readers, > >>> I'm just trying to sensitize you for the consequences of your >>> compat-breaking changes, which are the sole reason for my >>> "derecommendation". >> Consider your point made, but understand this: TDM-GCC certainly has >> some

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-12 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Dear list readers, >> I'm just trying to sensitize you for the consequences of your >> compat-breaking changes, which are the sole reason for my >> "derecommendation". > Consider your point made, but understand this: TDM-GCC certainly has > some critical differences from other GCC distributions

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-12 Thread John E. / TDM
On 5/12/2012 3:18 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > I'm just trying to sensitize you for the consequences of your > compat-breaking changes, which are the sole reason for my > "derecommendation". Consider your point made, but understand this: TDM-GCC certainly has some critical differences from othe

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-12 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/12 John E. / TDM > On 5/11/2012 9:10 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > > Yes, TDM's toolchain is a native build. but please don't use it, it's > > old (by now) and as you can see has installation problems > > :( > > With these two frankly unfounded generalizations, you may be scaring off > quit

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread John E. / TDM
On 5/11/2012 9:10 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > Yes, TDM's toolchain is a native build. but please don't use it, it's > old (by now) and as you can see has installation problems :( With these two frankly unfounded generalizations, you may be scaring off quite a few innocent readers who might hav

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
Op 11 mei 2012 20:32 schreef "Erik van Pienbroek" het volgende: > > Ruben Van Boxem schreef op vr 11-05-2012 om 17:10 [+0200]: > > > Remember to add the -qt-style-windows* options when you call Qt's > > configure or you'll get ugly Windows 95 style GUI's for all you Qt > > programs. > > If your mk

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Erik van Pienbroek
MARTIN Pierre schreef op vr 11-05-2012 om 20:42 [+0200]: > All right, but apart from creating your custom mkspec, did you need any > particular patching of the Qt source? In Fedora we applied various patches to Qt to fix some issues which aren't resolved upstream yet or are Fedora specific. It sh

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Dear Erik, First of all, i really appreciate you taking time to answer me. > The qmake build system doesn't work with build triplets, but with > so-called mkspecs profiles. These profiles are located in the mkspecs > folder which is part of the Qt source tarball. Right. > If you open the file mk

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Erik van Pienbroek
Ruben Van Boxem schreef op vr 11-05-2012 om 17:10 [+0200]: > Remember to add the -qt-style-windows* options when you call Qt's > configure or you'll get ugly Windows 95 style GUI's for all you Qt > programs. If your mkspecs name starts with "win32-g++" then these qt-style-windows* options will be

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Erik van Pienbroek
MARTIN Pierre schreef op vr 11-05-2012 om 15:58 [+0200]: > Now, i am trying to configure Qt 4.8.1 to compile it with MinGW-w64 (i > am willing to compile it on windows XP 32 bits for Windows XP 32 > bits). But my problem right now is that i can't seem to understand how > to give it the build tripl

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Vincent Torri
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > 2012/5/11 MARTIN Pierre >> >> > Yes, you will, but depending on how you build them, you'll need to point >> > the project's build infrastructure to find the Qt you've built. There's >> > nothing special about MSYS, it's only an emulation o

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
> Take a look at GNUWin32 they have a lot of the programs you'd want, for use > with cmd. The shell remains the same old non-functional cruft, but you get > ls, file, find, etc... Just remember GNU find is not Windows find, and some > stuff might expect the Windows version. Thanks for the tip!--

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/11 MARTIN Pierre > > Yes, you will, but depending on how you build them, you'll need to point > the project's build infrastructure to find the Qt you've built. There's > nothing special about MSYS, it's only an emulation of a POSIX shell on top > of Windows. > Perfect. Thanks Ruben :) Just

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
> Yes, you will, but depending on how you build them, you'll need to point the > project's build infrastructure to find the Qt you've built. There's nothing > special about MSYS, it's only an emulation of a POSIX shell on top of Windows. Perfect. Thanks Ruben :) Just for my personal information,

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/11 MARTIN Pierre > > No, it's not related to the toolchain. This is Qt's configure not > working on MSYS. Specifically, -DUNICODE is missing from the compiler > options. > It's working with SeZero's build. i'm really wondering what's different in > his build. > > > I must *strongly* urge

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
> No, it's not related to the toolchain. This is Qt's configure not working on > MSYS. Specifically, -DUNICODE is missing from the compiler options. It's working with SeZero's build. i'm really wondering what's different in his build. > I must *strongly* urge you to try building Qt from cmd ins

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/11 Kai Tietz > 2012/5/11 MARTIN Pierre : > > The last toolchain i have downloaded is the one from TDM's. i'm trying > to compile Qt 4.8.1 with it, and it fails where SeZero's build was > successfull. > > The error message i get is when compiling QMake (Which takes place in > the ./configur

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Kai, >> Creating qmake. Please wait... >> g++ -c -o project.o -DQMAKE_OPENSOURCE_EDITION -g -I. -Igenerators >> -Igenerators/unix -Igenerators/win32 -Igenerators/ma >> c -Igenerators/symbian -Igenerators/integrity >> -I/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/i686-w64-mingw32/include -I/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8 >>

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Kai Tietz
2012/5/11 MARTIN Pierre : > The last toolchain i have downloaded is the one from TDM's. i'm trying to > compile Qt 4.8.1 with it, and it fails where SeZero's build was successfull. > The error message i get is when compiling QMake (Which takes place in the > ./configure part): > > Creating qmake.

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
The last toolchain i have downloaded is the one from TDM's. i'm trying to compile Qt 4.8.1 with it, and it fails where SeZero's build was successfull. The error message i get is when compiling QMake (Which takes place in the ./configure part): Creating qmake. Please wait... g++ -c -o project.o

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
>> - When using the Europe -> France -> Free mirror, the package >> make-3.82-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma cannot be found on the server (404 type >> error). Is Dragon part of this list, or is it another project mailing list i >> shall subscribe to to report the problems i encounter? > Hmm, I heard that so

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Kai Tietz
2012/5/11 MARTIN Pierre : > Dear Ruben, dear list readers, > >> I suggest using a native MinGW-w64 toolchain to build Qt. Qt does not >> support cross-compiling (just look at the OpenSuse or Fedora mingw-w64 Qt >> package build scripts: they patch the hell out of Qt's build >> infrastructure). >> >

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/11 MARTIN Pierre > Dear Ruben, dear list readers, > > I suggest using a native MinGW-w64 toolchain to build Qt. Qt does not >> support cross-compiling (just look at the OpenSuse or Fedora mingw-w64 Qt >> package build scripts: they patch the hell out of Qt's build >> infrastructure). >> >>

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Dear Ruben, dear list readers, >> I suggest using a native MinGW-w64 toolchain to build Qt. Qt does not >> support cross-compiling (just look at the OpenSuse or Fedora mingw-w64 Qt >> package build scripts: they patch the hell out of Qt's build infrastructure). > > Ah! But i *am* using a native

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/11 MARTIN Pierre > Dear Ruben, > > First, thank you very much for your kind help. > > Is there anyone here successfull in compiling Qt 4.8.1 with MinGW-w64 >> using MSys? If yes, how? >> > > No, it's not intended to be built from MSYS on windows. It might work, but > is not recommended (by

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Dear Ruben, First, thank you very much for your kind help. > Is there anyone here successfull in compiling Qt 4.8.1 with MinGW-w64 using > MSys? If yes, how? > > No, it's not intended to be built from MSYS on windows. It might work, but is > not recommended (by me nor Nokia). This problem thou

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Hallo Kai, > sure there are a lot of people building Qt by using mingw-w64 (for > 32-bit and 64-bit version). i would really be interested to know about their setup / configure options, as the automated MinGw binary doesn't works for me. Please note that i just have downloaded SeZero MinGW build,

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2012/5/11 MARTIN Pierre > Dear list readers, > > As you might remember, i have been playing around with MinGW-w64 on MSys > to see if it could be of a good replacement for compiling on / for windows. > i finally have dropped the migration, as i was seriously lacking some > research time. > > Now

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread Kai Tietz
Hallo, sure there are a lot of people building Qt by using mingw-w64 (for 32-bit and 64-bit version). Have you checked on our Wiki the following links? https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/MSYS https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/BuildingQt Regards, Kai -

[Mingw-w64-public] Compiling Qt 4.8.1

2012-05-11 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Dear list readers, As you might remember, i have been playing around with MinGW-w64 on MSys to see if it could be of a good replacement for compiling on / for windows. i finally have dropped the migration, as i was seriously lacking some research time. Now that i have a bit time for me again, i