[Kde-bindings] Qyoto on Windows - interest and feedback

[Dimitar Dobrev]

    Sorry, my e-mail client got bugged and sent the mail prematurely. Here are the instructions:

    1. Install QtSDK; 
    2. Add C:\QtSDK\mingw\bin and C:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\<Qt_version>\mingw\bin to your PATH; 
    3. Install CMake; 
    4. Copy C:\QtSDK\mingw\bin\* to C:\QtSDK\mingw\libexec\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0\ (version may vary); 
    5. Check out smokegen: git clone git://anongit.kde.org/smokegen; 
    6. Check out smokeqt: git clone git://anongit.kde.org/smokeqt; 
    7. Check out assemblygen: git clone git://anongit.kde.org/assemblygen ; 

    for each in smokegen, smokeqt, assemblygen (in this order): 
    1. Run cmake-gui - select the dir with the checked out source and 
the desired dir for binaries; use MinGW and specify 
C:\QtSDK\mingw\bin\gcc.exe as the C compiler and 
C:\QtSDK\mingw\bin\g++.exe as the C++ compiler; 
    2. Fill in the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: "Release" or "Debug"; leaving it empty produced some strange half-debug version; 
    3. Configure - when it complains about QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE, set it 
to the location of qmake.exe 
(C:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\<version>\mingw\bin\qmake.exe, for example) 
by browsing through the GUI; 
    4. On the command line, cd to the dir through the command line and run "C:\QtSDK\mingw\bin\mingw32-make.exe install". 

    Note about assemblygen: if it cannot find the SMOKE libs, go to 
the libs/ subdir of your installation dir (specified in 
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX) and copy all smoke*.dll files to your CMAKE binary dir for assemblygen (or add the libs/ subdir to your PATH). 



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From: Dimitar Dobrev <dpldobrev at yahoo.com>
To: KDE bindings for other programming languages <kde-bindings at kde.org> 
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Kde-bindings] Qyoto on Windows - interest and feedback
 



    Hello, Brian,
    

    Thank you for your interest. I'd like to tell you that such feedback is very useful. I'm working right now on fixing inacurracies in the documentation but I'll try to fix these bugs by the end of the week, possibly sooner. However, if it is a show-stopper for you, please say so and the documentation could wait. :)

    Here's some build instructions for Windows:



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 From: "Crowell, Brian" <BCrowell at barbnet.com>
To: "kde-bindings at kde.org" <kde-bindings at kde.org> 
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 10:23 PM
Subject: [Kde-bindings] Qyoto on Windows - interest and feedback
 
Wanted to drop in and say that I've been a huge fan of Qt on Linux, and always hoped that someday I would be able to use it in my Windows-only corporate projects-- and now that Windows 8 has dropped, to help with that panicked look of "what do we do with our Windows Forms stuff now?"

So I'm surprised and very excited to see Windows binaries for the Qyoto project, and I want to offer encouragement, feedback, or whatever time I can spare to assist the project. (I wish I could offer programmatic help, but the last time I attempted to build any of the KDE bindings on Windows, I nearly threw my computer at the wall.)

I'm running the 4.0.5 Qyoto build (http://download.kde.org/stable/csharp-qt/4.0.5/win32/CSharpQt-Windows-4.0.5.7z) against Qt 4.8.4, and just beginning to test the framework against what I know Qt from the Python bindings.

The issues I've noticed so far have been with uics.exe:

* The included uics.exe has trouble with
 QDockWidgets. The dock widget's Features property are set using the wrong enum (QDockWidget.Feature instead of QDockWidget.DockWidgetFeature), and the code tries to call SetWidget() instead of setting the Widget property.

* uics.exe also produces code that sets a layout's Margin property, but a code warning says it should use SetContentsMargins() instead.

If this kind of feedback is useful, I'll be happy to provide it as I go. I'm eager to introduce our dev team to the joy that is Qt without forcing them to leave C#. If anyone has tips for building Qyoto on Windows, I might take another stab at that as well.

--Brian Crowell
  Developer, Barbnet Investments
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