qt3 cygwin - qt3win32

David Sharp david.m.sharp at btopenworld.com
Wed Aug 13 04:20:08 CEST 2003


This may have been answered already, but is it possible to compile KDE3 
using the commercial windows qt3 from trolltech?

Holger Schroeder wrote:

>Hi,
>
>the difference between both of these is which windowing system/operating 
>system they are made for:
>
>qt3 is mainly the "normal" qt for X11 on unix, fixed in some ways to run on 
>cygwin. the advantage of this is that this is the most stable gpl-ed qt you 
>can have on windows now. the disadvandage is that it uses X11 calls to draw 
>anything on screen, so you end up with:
>
>qt application
>qt3
>X server
>windows gdi drawing routines
>
>the x server in the middle eats some performance in this case.
>
>qt3-win32 is an attempt to port the platform-dependent parts of qt, so that 
>they run on windows native, so that you don't need the X-server any more:
>
>qt application
>qt3-win32
>windows gdi drawing routines
>
>this version should be faster once it is finished. it is still in heavy 
>development atm, and it is progressing very fast. if you want something 
>stable, choose the other one, but if you like to test it and give some 
>feedback on it, feel free to do so.
>
>Holger
>
>
>On Monday 11 August 2003 14:58, Jérôme DESPATIS wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello
>>
>>By the way, i really don't understand the 2 url:
>>http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/compiling.php
>>
>>and
>>
>>http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3/compiling.php
>>
>>it's not the same qt ?
>>why 2 cvs access ?
>>
>>which one should I compile on cygwin to have the more
>>recent version of qt3 ?
>>
>>thanks
>>enzo
>>
>>
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