QT 3.0

Chris January kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:34:08 +0100


> > > > Basically with QT 3 there has been a move from the previous
> > configuration
> > > > scripts to qmake. This causes some problems with Cygwin because
Cygwin
> > > > requires a special set of steps to be taken in order to produce
shared
> > > > libraries and these aren't supported by qmake. The DLL links using
the
> > qmake
> > > > generated Makefile, but is useless since it doesn't have a .DLL
suffix.
> > I
> > > > have produced my own script which creates a qt-mt-3-0.dll but this
is
> > only a
> > > > temporary fix. So what I'm asking is if anyone has any ideas on how
to
> > solve
> > > > this problem.
> > > Yes, I have a patched qt3-cygwin release with native qdir/qfile
support.
> > > You can get qt-3 in the next few days from cvs.
> > How did you link the DLL?
> With ld, of course. Im not sure, what you like to hear with this question.
> I have created a mkspec/cygwin-g++/dir and have patched qmake. See the
> appended patch of the head release of anoncvs.kde.orgs qt-copy dir
Ah - it was the patch to qmake I was after... I started to modify qmake
myself but realised that i) I didn't have the time ii) You'd probably
already done it :-)

Chris