[patch] qlibrary_win.cpp

[Andy Goossens]

On Friday 10 October 2003 00:24, Thiago A. Corrêa wrote:
> For filenames ( and most other calls ) it's fine to use the A version... as
> long as you don't use unicode characters in the filenames... ie, writting
> them in russian or japanese hiragana. To handle those correctly, we should
> do sth like:
>
> QT_WA( LoadLibraryA( filename.latin1() ) , LoadLibraryW(
> filename.ucs2() ) );

Hmmm... I tried that. The latin1() works fine, but the ucs2() doesn't. 
Compiler complains with:

passing `const short unsigned int *' as argument 1 of (...) const WCHAR *

> But that's not the only place where there will be issues... I fixed some
> myself from kde-cygwin's version merging them into mine ( as I have UNICODE
> defined by default )

You might want to send a patch fixing those issues after the Qt update :-)

> About license: I belive we can choose to only release the _win.cpp under
> GPL... the rest says that ppl who own a TT license can produce commercial
> stuff... I belive those who do have a license won't want our "bugged
> version" *smile*. But I guess it would be nice to TT if we keep their same
> license, allowing those with a license from TT to produce commercial apps,

For the moment being I would say we keep GPL and QPL in there, unless 
complications turn up. I'm wondering what TT thinks about commercial apps 
using our port.

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// Andy Goossens

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