this sound's very sweet for me. thanks alot for including qt in mingw.
:-) On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Inspired by a talk I listened to yesterday about Qt, I had a look at > packaging Qt. It's non-trivial, but here are my thoughts .. > > We need to start with the Qt-Win (open source version). Version 4.4.3 > which I looked at is GPL, but upcoming version 4.5 will be under LGPL > so allowing commercial development. Nevertheless we can practice > packaging using 4.4.3. > > Comes with a "configure.exe" program. This needs to be run under > Wine, so we cannot use it for cross-compilation. Even though we have > the source for configure.exe, that doesn't help because it has to be > compiled for the Win32 API so would still need to be run under Wine. > Instead, I run configure.exe by hand, and capture the files created & > modified in a patch. > > Uses a custom build system, qmake, and of course qmake doesn't fully > understand cross-compilation. Ugh! We can run the native qmake (from > qt-devel package) with the -win32 option, which is promising but it > generates and tests files with \ in the names. I'm still working on > this. > > This page is a little bit useful: http://silmor.de/38 > > You can find the initial work on this in the Mercurial repo, but don't > expect anything usable at the moment. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my OCaml programming blog: http://camltastic.blogspot.com/ > Fedora now supports 68 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) > http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora > _______________________________________________ > fedora-mingw mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw > -- ------------ Itamar Reis Peixoto e-mail/msn: [email protected] sip: [email protected] skype: itamarjp icq: 81053601 +55 11 4063 5033 +55 34 3221 8599 _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
