Trying to build Quanta...

[Ralf Habacker]

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to build Quanta (a KDE web development tool) on top of Cygwin
> with the new KDE3.1.1beta packages, with a little trouble.  I'm pretty
> sure I've got the correct paths for ./configure because it's stopped
> complaining about include problems (the only flag I'm currently providing
> is a --with-qt-dir=/usr/kde3, a link I'm pointing to my current KDE 3
> installation), but I get this on the console:
>
> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (library qt-mt) not
> found. Please check your installation!
>
see below

> I've looked in the directory where the library would be, and all I see is
> this:
>
> George at rikku /cygdrive/c/Program Files/KDE3.1/lib
> $ ls -al libqt*
> -rwx------+   1 George   None          122 Mar 10 20:13 libqt-mt.dll.lnk
> -rwx------+   1 George   None          613 Dec 16 08:23 libqt-mt.prl

Hmmh, under cygwin this should look like

lrwxrwxrwx    1 habacker Jeder         122 Mar 10 20:13 libqt-mt.dll ->
../bin/cygqt-mt-3.dll
-rw-rw-rw-    1 habacker Jeder         613 Dec 16 08:23 libqt-mt.prl
lrwxrwxrwx    1 habacker Jeder         118 Mar 10 20:13 libqui.dll ->
../bin/cygqui-1.dll

It seems the symbolic link is broken. It may be good to recreate it. Use the
following command.

$ cd /cygdrive/c/Program Files/KDE3.1/lib
$ ln -fs ../bin/cygqt-mt-3.dll libqt-mt.dll
$ ln -fs ../bin/cygqui-1.dll libqui.dll

BTW: you can make your live a little simplier with removing the /cygdrive
prefix, so you can access the windows drives easier with /c/.. and not with
/cygdrive/c/...

$ mount -c /

> So, am I missing something blatantly obvious?  I've been reading for a
> while the different list archives, but I admit that some of the
> information seemed cryptic to me, so I could not determine if it was
> useful to my situation.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide, this is one of the last things I need
> to do to be able to use KDE for most everything I do on my Windows machine
> (and get rid of Dreamweaver, PITA that it has been these last few weeks).
> George
> Okay, let's talk about some basics:

1. Cygwin is installed in a directory tree starting probably at c:\cygwin or
c:\Program Files\cygwin or whatever you have choosen on the first cygwin
installing. /opt/kde3 is the cygwin's path for the kde installation, so you
should choose the KDE installation directory like c:\cygwin\opt\kde3, which is
the default for the setup.
Doing so you can --with-qt-dir=/opt/kde3. This should work now.

2. You have installed KDE3 as I see on /cygdrive/c/Program Files/KDE3.1. This is
the base dir in which the qt library lives, which could be
ses  --with-qt-dir="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/KDE3.1"
Unfortunally the build system does not like spaces in path names, so this may
fail. you have two choices.
A. install the kde release into the path stated in 1. or
B. use the cygwin mount table support. In short because of internal needs the
kde installation directory is accessable under /opt/kde3. For further
informations see the Release Notes (README.TXT) in the KDE 3.1 release:

"- cygwin mount table use
This installation adds an entry to the cygwin mount table from the current
installation
path to /opt/kde3 to ensure propper dynamic loading of dll's regardless of the
true installation path.
<snip>
You can verify propper operation with the cygwin "mount" command.
See the following example:
               $ mount
                c:\Programme\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
                c:\Programme\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
        !!      c:\Programme\KDE3.1 on /opt/kde3 type system (binmode)    !!
                c:\Programme\cygwin on / type system (binmode)"

This means, you can use --with-qt-dir=/opt/kde3. This should work.

PS: If your project builds shared libraries, you should install the libtool
patch (libtool.. file) from http://cygwin.kde.org/snapshots . This speedups dll
creating.



Cheers
Ralf