[Marble-devel] Findings about Marble on Windows

Thu Jul 1 13:18:18 CEST 2010

Plus I hope Christophe you have a techbase's wiki account now :)
and that you kept your suggestions for my pages.
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2010/7/1 Sylvain Paré <sylvain.pare at gmail.com>

> Hi Christophe!
>
> good job ! :)
>
> For me I finished my work.. hum despite some independantes issues like
> can't see marble widget in the embdedded (in qtcreator) version of qt
> designer => tried all I could so the solution was not from my side
> can't build a mingw debug marble version because of qt's debug lib build
> some where with/for MSVC , again not can't do anything.
>
> Why do you say that perhaps now it is possible to build the debug version ?
>
> (I work the night this week so I am not very fresh...)
>
> CU
>
> Sylvain
>
>
>
> 2010/7/1 Torsten Rahn <tackat at t-online.de>
>
>
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>> Could you add this information to
>>
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/WindowsCompiling
>>
>> I'd really like Marble one Windows to be a first citizen.
>> I think we can only accomplish this if documentation for compiling it
>> becomes
>> good. :-)
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Torsten
>>
>> On Thursday 01 July 2010 11:46:20 you wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I thought i'd dump some thoughts here about compiling Marble on Windows
>> > (depsite the techpages put up on the marble website).
>> >
>> > I'd appreciate any hints or corrections. Also, feel free to add these
>> > informations to the site if there is any interest.
>> >
>> > Marble can be compiled using two different compilers, either MingW or
>> > Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC).
>> >
>> > The Windows version distributed on the KDE website is compiled using the
>> > MSVC compiler. For it to work, you'll also need the MSVC compiled
>> > version of QT (available at
>> > http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2008).
>> >
>> > These are precompiled binaries of the QT Framework, done with MSVC.
>> >
>> > Once you got these installed, make sure that you add the bin Path of the
>> > framework to your PATH variable. E.g. "C:\Qt\4.6.3\bin". This will point
>> > the system to the DLLs of the framework eventually needed by any Qt
>> > application.
>> >
>> > Now, once you pulled the sources from SVN into a fresh directory, you
>> > can open a command line window (with administrator privileges - on Vista
>> > and Windows 7, you need to hold down SHIFT and Control when executing
>> > "CMD.exe" from the start button menu). You  need to make sure that you
>> > got those privileges, otherwise the build will fail due to missing
>> > rights to write files later on during linking and installing.
>> >
>> >
>> > Make sure to set the environment variables for the MS Visual C++
>> > compiler by doing "vcvarsall.bat" in the tool subdirectory of your
>> > Microsoft Visual C++ installation.
>> >
>> > Example:
>> >
>> > C:\>cd "\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC"
>> >
>> > C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC>vcvarsall
>> > Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 x86 tools.
>> >
>> > Then you can issue the build commands (thanks to Patrick Spendrin for
>> > that):
>> >
>> > cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DQTONLY=ON
>> > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\marble-tmp && nmake && nmake install
>> >
>> > Additionally, if you would like to optimize things a bit, you can also
>> > add compiler options like
>> >
>> > cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DQTONLY=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\Temp
>> > -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/O2 /GL /arch:SSE2" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release &&
>> > nmake && nmake install
>> >
>> > /02 is an option for optimizing for speed
>> > /GL is "overall program optimization" and
>> > /arch:SSE2 optimizes for SSE2 commands
>> >
>> > type "cl -h" for more available options on the MSVC compiler.
>> >
>> > Once issued, you will get the build kicked off. First, the cmake
>> > cross-compiler will make the MakeFile, and Nmake will then compile it,
>> > while nmake install will install the application at the path specified
>> > at CMAKE_IMSTALL_PATH Prefix.
>> >
>> > Once marble "installed", you need to manually copy the missing Qt
>> > Framework DLLs as well as the missing imageformat DLL for importing
>> tiles.
>> >
>> > The following DLLs go from the Qt/bin directory right next to the
>> > marble.exe file in the installation directory:
>> >
>> > QtCore4.dll
>> > QtGui4.dll
>> > QtNetwork4.dll
>> > QtSvg4.dll
>> > QtWebKit4.dll
>> > QtXml4.dll
>> >
>> > Additionally, you need to create a directory in the "plugins" folder
>> > named "imageformats". This is the plugin for different image formats. In
>> > Marble 0.8.0, there was just one DLL in there, namely "qjpeg4.dll",
>> > which is the support for JPEG file tiles in Marble.
>> >
>> > [NOTE: what about PNG support? Would that be "qmng4.dll" to be added?]
>> >
>> > The "qjpeg4.dll" is not build yet after downloading and installing the
>> > MSVC version of the Qt Framework, yet you will find a MS VC Project file
>> > in your Qt source directory (e.g.
>> > "C:\Qt\4.6.3\src\plugins\imageformats\imageformats.dsw"). Open that up,
>> > set the release configuration in the compiler and compile the project.
>> >
>> > Note that the output files will be found in another place! Namely in the
>> > plugins folder of Qt (e.g. "C:\Qt\4.6.3\plugins\imageformats")
>> >
>> >  From there, you can copy the qjpeg4.dll needed, and you should be all
>> > set - you now got a fresh Marble version compiled, eventually even with
>> > optimizations!
>> >
>> >
>> > Sylvain, maybe it is now possible to build debug versions of the
>> > libmarble widget as you intended to? CMAKE accepts Debug builds, and
>> > putting up the Debug-Version of the Qt-DLLs should eventually do the
>> > trick for you.
>> >
>> > If you care about explaining me what you were after (forgot about it,
>> > sorry), I may be able to help you out (this time) :-)
>> >
>> >
>> > Greets,
>> >
>> > Christophe Leske
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>> >
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