DS9 backend

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting Matthias Kretz <kretz at kde.org>:

>
>
> On Saturday 28 June 2008 13:15:50 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>> Quoting Matthias Kretz <kretz at kde.org>:
>> > On Saturday 28 June 2008 03:08:06 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>> >> Using the patch #6 from
>> >> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/patches
>> >> (dirty and ugly, it could use some #ifdef's), it's possible to build
>> >> the DS9 backend on Windows as a KDE plugin, thus making Phonon work
>> >> with KDE applications.
>> >
>> > That patch really shouldn't be necessary anymore with recent Phonon. What
>> > happens if you don't apply that patch?
>>
>> Does recent Phonon mean Phonon in trunk/kdesupport ?
>
> that or branches/phonon/4.2

I've tested trunk

>> Without that patch,
>> a) CMake won't find the DirectX SDK,
>
> That part should get into svn then.

OK, I'll commit tomorrow night.

>> b) KDE applications are not able to use the DS9 backend because they do not
>> find a KDE4-compatible factory, only the Qt-factory
>
> Yes, but I can use the GST backend here and it doesn't have a   
> KDE-factory. Why
> doesn't that work on Windows?

Maybe the plugin loader is not working fine on Windows. How are Phonon  
backends loaded? QPluginLoader? KPluginLoader?

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