[Kde-pim] Unusual compile issue (Windows) Akonadi 1.8.1

[Stuart Dickson]

Hi,

Normally I'd ask the kde-windows crew, but it looks like it should be 
affecting the other builds, I thought I'd fire a question on here.

In akonadi's CMakeLists.txt file, there are two definitions:
QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII
QT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII

Which prevent us from converting from the #define'd character array 
strings, to QString in the file notes/noteutils.cpp
It also has an impact on the ability to convert between a few other 
related datatypes.
(there is a short-term pastebin of the error here: 
http://paste.kde.org/597308/ )

I have been able to correct this by wrapping these macros in 
QLatin1String(...) as well as some fixing of the ByteArray->QString/QUrl 
conversion later, but wanted to speak to someone first before commiting, 
to have a better understand of what was going on (mainly because, with 
the NO_CAST macros, I would not have expected these to build in Linux 
either).

I'm happy to provide the patch for review, if it would be useful, 
otherwise we could keep it local to kde-windows (though my preference 
would be to incorporate these changes into akonadi).
Possibly there is a more recent version of 1.8.x which resolves this 
problem?

Best regards
Stuart
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