What options are there for compiling Scribus?

[Holger Schröder]

Hi,

all in all the process of porting Scribus to windows is not trivial.
scribus as it is now is a program, that runs on unix/linux with x11 and is 
compiled with gcc.

so you should go on step by step

first: you should try to get scribus running on cygwin with x11 and qt for 
cygwin and x11. that would be the transition from linux to cygwin. there can 
be problems here.

then you should try to get rid of the dependency on x11. it is still needed 
iirc, for example for some font stuff or so. when you got this running, you 
have scribus on cygwin without x11 on qt/windows.

the next step would be to switch from cygwin to mingw.

then you can try to compile it with borland instead of gcc.


expect to spend a week of full time work on this, if it works at all.
if you can get one or more of these steps working, please tell us about it, so 
that the changes you needed to make can be fed back into the main scribus 
cvs.

btw: when you get a package of scribus, that is packaged directly from cvs, 
you have to execute the "make -f Makefile.cvs" step, when you get a package, 
that is released, then you can omit that step. released packages already 
contain the file "configure" in the base directory. snapshots of cvs have to 
build that file first. that is done by executing make -f Makefile.cvs.

i wish you a lot of luck with this. i looked at that about half a year ago for 
some hours, and i couldn´t finish step one, because scribus was always 
crashing on startup...


regards Holger


On Tuesday 22 February 2005 00:34, Steven Boothe wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I am continuing to work through various issues as they crop up.
> Currently I have been following the instructions at:
> http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3/compiling.php
>
> in order to satisfy the 1. requirement for compiling Scribus:
> > -----instructions-----
> > 1. install qt-3.3.3 release (qt-3.3.1 does not work)
>
> The problem I encounter is listed after following these steps:
>
> ----begin steps------
> # install development tools with the Cygwin Installer, at least
>      - cvs
>      - make
>      - >=gcc 3.3.1
>      - recent binutils
>      - flex
>      - byacc
>      - XFree (at least base and prog)
>      - cygipc
> # gcc-2 (for the gcc2 version)
> # ld patch for gcc3.3
> # The qt source requires yacc, which could be emulates through byacc.
> (It was reported that using bison doesn't work)
> Create a yacc wrapper by entering the following lines into a bash shell:
>
> cat >/usr/local/bin/yacc
> byacc $*
>
> Then enter RETURN and CTRL-D to close the cat command.
> # download last qt 3.2.3 sources
> # unpack the source archive
>
> cd <any-src-dir>
> tar -xjf qt-3.2.3-2-src.tar.bz2
>
> # create some missing links which are not set by cygwin
>
> ln -s /usr/lib/libcygipc.a /usr/lib/libipc.a
>
> # prepare configuring (this creates the links in the include directory)
>
> cd <qt-src-dir>
>
> make -f Makefile.cvs
> ------end steps------
>
> output of last steps:
>
> $ make -f Makefile.cvs
> cd include && headers=`ls q*.h 2>/dev/null` &&\
> [ "x$headers" != "x" ] && rm -f $headers;
> [ -d include/private ] || mkdir -p include/private
> if test -z ; then \
>          cd include && ln -f -s ../src/*/q*.h . && ln -f -s
> ./extensions/*/src/q*.h . && \
>          ln -f -s ../tools/designer/uilib/q*.h . &&\
>          ln -f -s ../tools/assistant/lib/q*.h . && rm -f q*_p.h && \
>          rm qtmultilineedit.h qttableview.h && \
>          cd private && rm -f q*.h && ln -f -s ../../src/*/q*_p.h .; \
> else \
>          cd include && ln -f -s /src/*/q*.h . && ln -f -s
> /extensions/*/src/q*.h . && \
>          ln -f -s /tools/designer/uilib/q*.h . &&\
>          ln -f -s /tools/assistant/lib/q*.h . && rm -f q*_p.h && \
>          rm qtmultilineedit.h qttableview.h && \
>          cd private && rm -f q*.h && ln -f -s /src/*/q*_p.h .; \
> fi
>
> cboothe at IT-staff /src/qt-3
> $ echo yes | ./configure -platform cygwin-g++ -fast -plugin-imgfmt-mng
> -thread -no-stl \ -qt-zlib -qt-gif -
> qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -qt-libmng -no-g++-exceptions -no-xft -no-xkb \
> -disable-opengl -prefix /opt/qt/3.3
>   -qt-zlib: unknown argument
>   -disable-opengl: unknown argument
>
> (Note: I went ahead and changed the value for -prefix from /opt/qt/3.2
> to 3.3)
>
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