KOffice 1.5.2 on Cygwin?

[Chris January]

> 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...

Ultimately the final executable shouldn't be modifying these slots on
Cygwin if they are not modified on other platforms.

>
> 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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