KOffice 1.5.2 on Cygwin?

[Gary Greene]

So would I, as that would allow me to run Kontact on Win32 at work.....

Gary Greene
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Service QA Engineer
Turbine Software Entertainment, Inc.
60 Glacier Dr, Suite 4000
Westwood, MA 02090 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manfred Haertel, DB3HM [mailto:Manfred.Haertel at rz-online.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:58 PM
> To: kde-cygwin at kde.org
> Subject: Re: KOffice 1.5.2 on Cygwin?
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Some weeks ago I posted a message concerning self compiled 
> KOffice applications crashing immediately after starting. I 
> append a quote of this message.
> 
> Exactly the same problem happened when I tried to port a 
> simple KDE programming example I've written from Linux to 
> Cygwin. Fortunately, this application was simple enough to 
> track down the source of the problem.
> 
> It seems as if this problem happens exactly when you define a 
> slot with parameters! If all slots don't have parameters, 
> everything is fine, if at least one slot has at least one 
> parameter, the application crashes immediately.
> 
> I even found a workaround, by editing the moc generated cpp 
> files manually.
> 
> If you define slots with parameters, there are lines in the 
> cpp file similar to the following:
> 
>      static const QUParameter param_slot_0[] = {
> 
> If you remove just the "const" keyword here, everything is 
> fine again and the application runs perfectly!
> 
> This is really weird!
> 
> I do not really understand, where the problem is, probably 
> it's a g++ compiler (or linker?) problem under Cygwin.
> 
> I also have no good idea yet how to apply the workaround 
> easily to KOffice (adding sed commands to all Makefile's???).
> 
> If anybody has an idea how to solve the problem or a better 
> workaround, I would be very happy! Thanks in advance!
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Manfred
> 
> Manfred Haertel, DB3HM wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I tried to build KOffice 1.5.2 on Cygwin, just to see if this works.
> > 
> > To my surprise, the KOffice core and most application built without 
> > any problem.
> > 
> > The problem is, when I try to start any application, it crashes 
> > immediately with STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. It seems that the crash 
> > happens while referring to KoApplication, so I think it's a problem 
> > with the libraries.
> > 
> > Do I have to add some flags to the linker on Cygwin?
> > 
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Manfred Härtel, DB3HM    mailto:Manfred.Haertel at rz-online.de
>                           http://rz-home.de/mhaertel 
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