[Kde-bindings] Qyoto Autotools

[Richard Dale]

On Friday 15 September 2006 18:43, Arno Rehn wrote:
> Am Freitag, 15. September 2006 18:30 schrieb Arno Rehn:
> > Am Freitag, 15. September 2006 17:21 schrieb Richard Dale:
> > > On Thursday 14 September 2006 21:34, Arno Rehn wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've just worked out how to use the GNU Autotools with C# and created
> > > > some files for Qyoto. I can already build qyoto.dll with it, but
> > > > libqyoto.so is still somewhat difficult. How can we get the location
> > > > of smoke.h and libsmokeqt.so? Is there something in pkg-config? I
> > > > haven't found anything.
> > >
> > > We should be able to assume that the qyoto project will in kdebindings
> > > where the smoke library is. In qtruby/rubylib/qtruby/Makefile.am, the
> > > positions are given relative to the top src or builddir:
> > >
> > > -I$(top_srcdir)/smoke
> > > $(top_builddir)/smoke/qt/libsmokeqt.la
> > >
> > > For KDE4 we really should use cmake - I don't know if it can check for
> > > Mono, or build .cs sources into dlls.
>
> As we are talking about this: Are there any plans to release a first
> version of Qyoto? I think they are quite useful by now and most of it works
> (except DBUS), so at least a beta could be released.
Well there isn't that much to do to get DBus working - mainly adding return 
values to slots. It should pretty much work already I would think. I think 
it's a bit early to call Qyoto a beta, we really need to add some more 
marshallers first and improve the build system. The Qt4 version of QtRuby is 
built with autotools, and so there's no reason why we shouldn't do that for 
Qyoto at first, as long as we end up with a cmake version by the time KDE4 
comes out.

> I would really like to work on DBUS, but I have never before worked with it
> and Qt 4.2 is still hard masked on my gentoo box (it says, it wouldn't work
> with current dbus and eventually break...).
> Are there any examples demonstrating Qt4 DBUS ?
Yes, look in qt-copy in the kde svn trunk under examples/qdbus. What about 
asking for kde svn access, you just need to say what you want to do (ie work 
on Qyoto/Kimono C# bindings)? It will make it easier to work on getting the 
autotools build system working and the project moved to kdebindings. Then 
perhaps we could do a first release.

-- Richard