Still got problems compiling....

Ralf Habacker kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 23:46:58 +0100


> > Recent qt release are only currently compiled with gcc 2.95x. Porting to
> > gcc 3.2 is an outstanding issue, so there are two possibilities:
> >
> > 1. Compile with gcc 2.95.2
> > 2. Try gcc 3.2 and figure out how to setup the build system. This is an
> > important step for kde 3.x because gcc 3 uses a different application
> > binary interface as gcc 2. and
>
> What? I can ONLY get qt-3.0.4 and qt-3.0.5 to compile with gcc-3.2 under
> linux. It fails miserably using gcc-2.x, so is the gcc-2.x a cygwin issue
> only?
>
Yes, at the time where qt 3.0.4 was available only gcc 2.95.3. was available and
works very stable for a long time.
The gcc 3.2 releases are very new and has still some problems.

> I also cannot seem to find a gcc-2.x package for cygwin. What mirror carries
> that?
>
See http://www.cygwin.com/packages/gcc2/ or see for gcc2 in the cygwin's
setup.exe devel category.

Ralf