KOffice 1.5.2 on Cygwin?

[Manfred Haertel, DB3HM]

Hello!

Probably the easiest solution would be to modify moc.y in the Qt source. 
Unfortunately this means to recompile Qt for Cygwin and I have not yet 
managed to do this successfully.

Another solution would be to write a wrapper for moc, which passes all 
parameters to the real moc, then finds out what the output file was and 
processes it with sed.

But possibly there is still an easier solution...

Gary Greene wrote:
> So would I, as that would allow me to run Kontact on Win32 at work.....
> 
> Gary Greene
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>> -----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
>>>
>>
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