[Kde-bindings] Primer on building/using Binge and the generated newQt# bindings

[Adam Treat]

sorry, sorry, sorry -- ./autogen.sh and then ./configure ;)

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 5:24 pm, Martin Welch wrote:
> >>Top level dir: ./configure && make
>
> Fell at the first fence - I can't find a configure file in \qtsharp,
> \qtsharp\src, \qtsharp\src\binge etc...
>
> Cheers, Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Treat [mailto:manyoso at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 29 June 2004 23:01
> To: KDE bindings for other programming languages;
> qtcsharp-list at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Kde-bindings] Primer on building/using Binge and the generated
> newQt# bindings
>
> On Tuesday 29 June 2004 5:31 pm, Martin Welch wrote:
> > I've started to look through the code -- GlueStick.cs fascinated me for
> > some reason -- but I'll await your howto before I go any further.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > Martin
>
> Here is the quick overview of howto compile, generate and test Binge code:
>
> Assuming you have latest release Mono, Pnet, Qt etc, etc
>
> You'll have to manually edit a few files after they've been generated and
> move
> around the resultant .so and .dll files..
>
> Top level dir: ./configure && make
>
> This will proceed for awhile, first building Binge and then using Binge to
> generate the newlibqtsharp C++ glue library and then proceed to compile
> that...  It'll error on src/newlibqtsharp/QFontDialogGlue.cpp.  This is
> because the api.xml file I'm using is months old and the new Qt version
> makes
> some of this files methods private.
>
> 1) Edit QFontDialogGlue.cpp and remove the offending methods: eventFilter,
> updateFamilies, updateStyles, updateScripts, and updateSizes.
>
> 2. Finish compiling newlibqtsharp and then the build will move on to
> generating the bindings in newbindings...
>
> 3. You'll see an error in QMessageBox regarding the property 'TheIcon'.
> Remove the 'override' keyword from this generated file and then issue a
> 'csant' command in newbindings.  This is because of some nasty swings in
> the inheritance tree for this particular prop...
>
> 3. If you forget and issue a 'make' command instead of 'csant' it'll throw
> a bunch of errors because of this bug in mcs:
> http://bugs.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60603  That's why you use pnet's
> cscc via the generic 'csant' command :)
>
> 4. Ok, now you are almost done and ready to go.  Copy the libnewqtsharp.so*
> files in newlibqtsharp into "newexamples/samples/" and do likewise for the
> NewQt.dll in newbindings.  Go into newexamples/samples and issue another
> 'csant'.
>
> 5. You can invoke the examples with 'mono hello.exe' or 'ilrun emit.exe' to
> see how they work.
>
> That's it for now.  I have some modifications in my local tree that aren't
> quite ready for primetime, but they enable full virtual/override
> inheritance goodness.  Oh, and you can see the list for a few modifications
> we are still going to make for the signal/slot stuff.  It is quite complete
> now, but we're
> thinking of some magic so we can omit the emit call ;)
>
> KDE bindings are on the way as soon as we can get caught up.
>
> Cheers, Adam
>
>
>
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