On 15 May 2015 at 18:12, Peter Kelly <pmke...@apache.org> wrote: > Awesome :) > > I actually ran into a 64 bit-related problem today as I was trying to > build the Qt UI on windows, and realised I’d installed the 64 bit version > of Qt whereas the rest of the code was 32-bit, and thus VS refused to link > against it. > I had the same issue a while ago, thus my detour.
> > I’m just making some time now to hopefully get a bit more into > development, and I want to focus on getting the Qt app into a state where > people can easily come in and contribute to it. I think UI work will be a > nice attractive thing for new (and existing!) developers and will finally > let us have an end-user app where we can show off something interesting. > Be aware that I can changes to a number of places in the code, to make it compile with 64bit, mostly casting issues. > > I was going to wait until I’d done some more testing with Windows but I’ve > pushed my fixes for Qt/Linux building now. All that required changing in > the CMake config was to remove the hard-coded paths; if the qt bin > directory is in your path then CMake will use one of the programs in there > (qtdiag?) to figure out the include/lib paths. Once I did that on my Mac I > found that I could build on both OS X and Linux (a couple of minor source > changes were also required for the latter). > I expect to commit my changes this weekend. > > Once you’ve got your cmake changes committed, we should be good to enable > the qt build by default. I’ve got build instructions for Linux now which > I’m about to post to the wiki. > Agreed. We do need to keep that component optional, due to the Qt license. > > Is there an Apache-official place where we can host the binaries, other > than your home directory on people.? The latter is probably sufficient for > the time being at least. > There are something called "apache extra" but that is floating right now, so let us do what many projects does, use the homedir. rgds jan I. > > — > Dr Peter M. Kelly > pmke...@apache.org > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > > > On 15 May 2015, at 10:52 pm, jan i <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > I finally got all the libraries we need to compile in 32bit and 64bit, so > > now I can continue. > > > > I have made all the sources (with setup) available > > http://people.apache.org/~jani/corinthia_winLibs_source.zip > > > > And a set (32/64 bit) ready for download > > http://people.apache.org/~jani/corinthia_winlibs.zip > > > > I will now integrate them and test them in my work branch, then merge > them > > to master and > > write new windows build instructions. > > > > rgds > > jan i. > >
