[bt-devel] Windows build problems

[Greg Hellings]

Gary

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg Hellings wrote:
>>
>> Gary,
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I've been thinking about this -- do you use MSVC with the LGPL version
>> of the libraries?  Officially they only support MinGW with that.  I'm
>> thinking that somehow my options have messed up building Qt with MSVC
>> somehow.  I'll try a rebuild when I get more time.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>
> I use MSVC with the LGPL. There are two LGPL versions. The mingw and the
> source version. You want the source version. It is fully supported on Studio
> 2008. They don't make that version easy to find. You have to select to
> download the mingw version and cancel the dialog that pops up. On that page
> you will find the source download link. This is the same version we are
> using at my work using the LGPL. We have fully researched that the LGPL is
> valid for it.
>
> Support: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/supported-platforms.html
> Download:
> http://get.qtsoftware.com/qt/source/qt-win-opensource-src-4.5.0.zip
>
> After unzipping look for a README or INSTALL file and follow its
> instructions. It can take many hours to build.

OK, that's the same method that I use.  I just wanted to be sure that
it wasn't my build process for the library itself.  If that's not the
culprit, then I don't know what it is.  It took me about 5.5 hours
doing a linear build of it.

I'm out of time now, but I'll try to get a look at it in before I
package up a new build.

--Greg

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> Gary
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