[bt-devel] Windows Fixes - svg vs png

[Greg Hellings]

Gary,

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com> wrote:
> Barry Drake wrote:
>>
>> Hi there .......
>>
>> Gary Holmlund wrote:
>>>
>>> On Windows it gets down to looking for the plugin and it has not been
>>> loaded. It is there at \qt\4.4.3\plugins\iconengines\qsvgicond4.dll.
>>
>> Am I missing something here?  The .dll may be there in the developer
>> files, but Windows is very unforgiving and needs .dll's to be either in the
>> shared win32 directory or in the path or (best) in the bin directory.  The
>> current install does not seem to include the .dll at all.  Try putting it in
>> the .bin directory of the Ziphos install.
>
> I am working with the developer files, not the install files. It does not
> even work for that case.
>
> Also, the plugin dll's are a special case of dll. They were not linked
> against BibleTime like most other dll's. They are directly loaded by Qt by
> it looking for dll files in a specific directory, so they don't need to be
> on any path for it to work.
>
> If I get svg working in the development case, we will still have to do more
> work in the install files because this plugin is not currently there.

It works just fine on my development machine - if the problem is a
missing DLL file, then just let me know which library/DLL file and I
can easily add it to the distributable file and release it more or
less immediately, rather than having to work on the SVG/PNG file
conversion question.

--Greg

>
> Also, I note that the svg icon is the only icon case that uses a plugin. The
> others are just built into Qt.
>
> Gary
>
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