[Kde-bindings] Qyoto on Windows

[Richard Dale]

On Sunday 04 May 2008 01:07:06 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> Quoting Ilmar Kruis <ikruis at gmail.com>:
>
> There are terribly outdated (July 2007) precompiled versions at
> http://www.qyoto.org but I wouldn't use them because they are so old
> they are probably useless. I wonder if the guy who owns the domain and
> site still reads this mailing list :-?
Well good point - maybe we would be better off using the mono site. We should 
really do a last release of the monolithic version Qyoto before changing 
to 'modular smoke' but there isn't really anywhere to put it if this site is 
dead.

> You may want to try to install it using the KDE4 for Windows
> installer: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm quite interested in using Qyoto as cross-platform gui for my
> > projects. But I'll need a windows version. So, I've been messing around
> > for a day or so to get smoke and qyoto compile, but finally ended up with
> > an
> > AccessViolationException at the very first call to new QApplication();
> > (in CallSmokeMethod). This might be because of the hacking I did to get
> > things to compile though. Here is the end result of what I tried to do to
> > get stuff compiling (tried with VS2005 at first, but quickly switched to
> > make/mingw...):
> >
> > - Download Qt/WIN OpenSource Edition 4.4 RC1 (MinGW)
> > - Checkout kdebindings in spaceless path
> > - Checkout CMake modules
> > - Setup MSYS with MinGW (GCC 4.2.1-sjlj)
> > - Download ActivePerl (5.10)
> > - Download CMake (2.4)
> >
> > - Rename CMakeLists.txt.qyoto to CMakeLists.txt
> > - Change ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR} to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin in
> > smoke/qt/CMakeLists.txt and csharp/qyoto/CMakeLists.txt (LIB_INSTALL_DIR
> > doesn't show up as option in CMake GUI)
> > - Run CMake on kdebindings ( binaries in ./build, using MSYS makefiles
> > target )
> > - Set Qwt5_INCLUDE_DIR to zero
> > - Set GMCS_EXECUTABLE to csc.exe
> > - Set GACUTIL_EXECUTABLE to gacutil.exe
> >
> > - Remove 2>/dev/null from qtguess.pl (not recognized)
> > - Replace Qt/lib/libQt**.a with Qt/bin/Qt**.dll in qtguess.pl (static
> > linking fails with loads of object not found)
> > - Remove Qt/bin/QtUITools.dll from qtguess.pl
> > - Undefine _GLIBCXX_HAVE_ISWBLANK in
> > /lib/gcc/mingw32/4.2.1-sjlj/include/c++/mingw32/bits
> >
> > - Change push ( @headers, $File::Find::dir . substr($1, 2) ); to push (
> > @headers, $File::Find::dir .'/'. $1 ); in generate.pl (sources are in
> > include/Qt/../../src, not include/Qt/../src)
> > - Remove qdbus*.h, quiloader.h, qaccessible*.h, qitemeditorfactory.h,
> > qsqldatabase.h from header_list (DBus and Accessiblity are not available,
> > factory stuff couldn't be linked)
> >
> > - Replace / (forward slash) with \\ (double backslash) in csc.exe
> > arguments in build/CMakeFiles/qt-dotnet.dir/build.make (csc doesn't
> > support /-paths) - Remove using Qyoto; from
> > csharp/qyoto/src/SmokeInvocation.cs
> >
> > - `make`
> >
> > - Change #include <dom/qdom.h> to #include <qdom.h> in smokedata.cpp,
> > x_3.cpp, x_4.cpp and x_6.cpp
> > - Set $(smokeqt_EXTERNAL_OBJECTS) -L/d/Qt/4.4.0-rc1/bin -lQtCore4
> > -lQtGui4 -lQtNetwork4 -lQtOpenGL4 -lQtSql4 -lQtSvg4 -lQtXml4 -lQtWebKit4
> > -Wl,-Bdynamic in smoke\qt\CMakeFiles\smokeqt.dir\build.make
> > (changed to shared, /lib to /bin and removed QtUITools)
> >
> > - `make`
> >
> > - Ignore loads of 'redeclared without dllimport attribute: previous
> > dllimport ignored' warnings
> >
> > - Compiles until uics, which can't find DomUI when linking
> >
> > Ilmar Kruis