[bt-devel] Windows build problems

[Gary Holmlund]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> Greg Hellings wrote:
>
>>
>> 2) bibletime-2.0.0alpha3-win32.exe - an installer, built with CPack,
>> that should install everything needed for users of BibleTime on
>> Windows.  Again, YMMV, but I've actually tested it, this time, on my
>> XP virtual machine and everything installs and runs.  I'm not able to
>> get the SVG files running on XP, but there is a QtSvg4.dll and
>> QtSvgd4.dll in the 4.5.0 build -- getting those linked in properly (I
>> modified CMakeLists.txt to link in the SVG libraries, but I they don't
>> seem to be used) might solve our issue of that display.
>
> I can confirm the problems you previously told about. The toolbar is 
> in wrong place. Maybe it has a wrong parent or something like that. 
> But it works correctly on Linux/Qt4.5. If I hide/show it again (go on 
> top of Bookshelf, Bookmarks or Mag title and use RMB menu) it goes to 
> the correct place and works correctly.
>
> It's really slow. It wasn't with previous package. It works well with 
> Linux/Qt4.5, and I don't believe Qt has released anything this bad. 
> But either I don't believe it's our code, because it has worked well 
> all the time sans some exceptions: opening the bookshelf manager where 
> populating the list view takes long time; opening the install progress 
> dialog. These are really slow now, too, but I feel slowness also 
> elsewhere. On the other hand, after it has been used some time it 
> works quite well.
>
> There are still problems with sword configuration. BibleTime uses 
> home/.sword by default. Maybe we have to change that and use the 
> Xiphos model. And there appears .sword directory under Program 
> Files/BibleTime. It's wrong because it includes changing data.
>
> There are just too many TODO items right now with Sword 1.6 and Qt 4.5 
> and other things so I can't concentrate on these. We need more 
> developers...
>
>>
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> --Eeli Kaikkonen
I have been building with Qt4.5 on windows and have not seen the toolbar 
problem. I also checked the source and the toolbar creation code looks 
right.

I also just built on Jaunty 9.04-rc with Qt4.5 and have been building 
with Qt4.5 on 8.10. I have not seen any toolbar or speed problems.

Gary