[Kde-bindings] Qt Compile Flags (Was: Compiling Without Installing)

[Chris Burel]

Yes, pkg-config will work for us for Qt, but not for Smoke.  Last time
I looked, kde-bindings doesn't ship with .pc files.  I checked
<kdeprefix>/lib/pkgconfig, and saw none related to smoke.  Perhaps
that'd be useful for smoke to include?

Jonathan, I saw a post from you earlier about restructuring the
directory layout of the bindings to accommodate using the
Makefile.PL/ExtUtils::MakeMaker build method.  Currently we have this
PerlQt4
  |-smoke
  |  \-qt
  |    \-...
  \-perl
    \-bindings files

You wanted to make it
PerlQt4
  \-perl
    |-smoke
    |  \-qt
    |    \-...
    \-bindings files

Don't you think we can make it work as it is?  If there's a
Makefile.PL at the top level, and a Makefile.PL in the smoke directory
that builds smoke for us, and a Makefile.PL in the perl dir that
builds the bindings, wouldn't that work?  Then we could keep our
structure similar to that of kde-bindings, so it's easy for us to
commit there when we're ready, and will integrate nicely with their
CMake build system.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric, et al:
>
> Sune (pusling) on IRC mentioned this to me.
>
> It looks as if it does exactly what we need. I'll work on writing a
> patch to our Build.PL/etc to get it to configure the flags properly
> :-)
>
> I want also to make sure users can override it, in case pkg-config
> isn't installed. So perhaps we can offer an environment variable that
> will determine the paths. I'll need to hack on that; when I have it
> relatively tested I'll commit something that we can test :-)
>
> (Something I also want to work on -- perhaps I can take a branch of
> the trunk -- is separating the qtsmoke stuff from the actual Perl
> binding source)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Eric Wilhelm
> <ewilhelm at scratchcomputing.com> wrote:
>> # from Jonathan Yu
>> # on Monday 01 June 2009 15:13:
>>
>>>What I'd really like to see is a command like pkg-config for Qt. How
>>>hasn't this come up before?
>>
>> My qt-4.5.1 install has a full complement of .pc files.
>>
>> e.g.
>>  pkg-config --libs QtGui
>>
>> Does this not do what we need?
>>
>> See also ExtUtils::PkgConfig, though it doesn't seem to be super
>> rigorous about checking the exit code of backticks, it does at least
>> provide some level of abstraction.
>>
>> --Eric
>> --
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