[bt-devel] Windows Fixes - svg vs png

[Gary Holmlund]

Greg Hellings wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Greg,

I have not had a change to try this but based on the Qt documentation 
you can copy $QTDIR/plugins/iconengines/qsvgicon4.dll to a iconengines 
directory located in the same directory as bibletime.exe.

            http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/plugins-howto.html

Gary