Thoughts on Qt
Itamar Reis Peixoto
itamar at ispbrasil.com.br
Mon Feb 2 15:34:47 UTC 2009
this sound's very sweet for me.
thanks alot for including qt in mingw.
:-)
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Inspired by a talk I listened to yesterday about Qt, I had a look at
> packaging Qt. It's non-trivial, but here are my thoughts ..
>
> We need to start with the Qt-Win (open source version). Version 4.4.3
> which I looked at is GPL, but upcoming version 4.5 will be under LGPL
> so allowing commercial development. Nevertheless we can practice
> packaging using 4.4.3.
>
> Comes with a "configure.exe" program. This needs to be run under
> Wine, so we cannot use it for cross-compilation. Even though we have
> the source for configure.exe, that doesn't help because it has to be
> compiled for the Win32 API so would still need to be run under Wine.
> Instead, I run configure.exe by hand, and capture the files created &
> modified in a patch.
>
> Uses a custom build system, qmake, and of course qmake doesn't fully
> understand cross-compilation. Ugh! We can run the native qmake (from
> qt-devel package) with the -win32 option, which is promising but it
> generates and tests files with \ in the names. I'm still working on
> this.
>
> This page is a little bit useful: http://silmor.de/38
>
> You can find the initial work on this in the Mercurial repo, but don't
> expect anything usable at the moment.
>
> Rich.
>
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