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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First off, sorry all if this is in the wrong
place. I've spent several months (off and on) looking around documentation
and googling and have failed to figure out what I'm doing, so I thought I'd risk
peeving some folks and ask people for help.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Second off, congrats to all working on porting KDE
over to cygwin. It's coming along nicely!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm interested in compiling/running koffice for the
3.1.1 Beta. I used the installer from <A
href="http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/installation.php">http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/installation.php</A> and
the first update. I also followed the manual installation instructions
from <A
href="http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3/download.php">http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3/download.php</A> on
cygwin qt installation. I was able to get qtconfig and designer to pop up
on the cygwin X Windows window. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I then downloaded what I believe is the koffice
source from <A
href="http://apps.kde.com/na/2/info/id/163">http://apps.kde.com/na/2/info/id/163</A>,
the first link under "General Packages". I go to issue configure, and get
the error:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt
3.0.3) (library qt-mt) not found.<BR> Please check your
installation!<BR>For more details about this problem, look at the end of
config.log.<BR>Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread
support!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Though if I understand things right, I actually
have Qt 3.0.4 floating around somewhere in my cygwin files. I noticed in
the configure file itself there are three options that might be handy,
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>--with-qt-dir=DIR where the root of
Qt is installed<BR>--with-qt-includes=DIR where the Qt includes
are.<BR>--with-qt-libraries=DIR where the Qt library is installed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But I have no clue what to put or how to find
out.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have marginal experience with unix and linux - I
am by no means an adept or a master. I know how to unpack source distros
and issue ./configure or make / make install. On rare occasions I can go
muck around in build sources that aren't compiling and figure out what's
wrong. But please, be lenient with the newbie! I have even less
experience with KDE or Qt, though I'm hoping to get more involved as both seem
very cool.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway, any help or advice is appreciated.
Most especially, "you're in over your head, wait for us to port koffice along
with a full release of kde for cygwin", if it's appropriate.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sincerely,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>James Dowdell</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:jdowdell@comcast.net">jdowdell@comcast.net</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>