mingw32-qt-win

[Kevin Kofler]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Does it specifically need the windbus version?  The situation with
> DBus upstream and building for Windows is complex, with IIRC windbus
> based on an older version of the Unix DBus sources and extra patches
> added to make it work on Windows.

Well, it's what kdewin ships and they're the main cross-platform user of
D-Bus. AFAIK, stock D-Bus is still missing some of the required
patches/fixes.

> When I looked at this I concluded that someone needed to take the
> patches which have been added by windbus and merge them into the Unix
> DBus sources.

Yes, but some of the patches may not be accepted as is without some
redesign. The main reason why a separate windbus project exists is that
D-Bus upstream didn't merge all the patches required to support the
inferior operating system. Even D-Bus upstream points to windbus:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus#head-04cafb2f7bd8608683af50dbaa089106271c8e9d

        Kevin Kofler