On Monday 13 November 2006 05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've never done any winders programming, but needed to do a GUI winders > > project. I spent 90% of my time doing it on my linux box, 10% porting it > > to winders. Now I can build either, mod either, support either (heh heh > > vmware) > > > > So 10 days for a C programmer to write a C++ app and port to winders. Not > > Bad! (Qt is simplistic C++, but the paradigsm works). Much easier than > > motif! > > What sort of effort is required to get a Qt app, once built, installed on > Windows? As in, what libraries, dlls, etc do I have to get a novice > desktop user to install to get my Qt app running, and how complex is that > (packaged in an install EXE / MSI file, etc, or do I have to create files > all over the file system and install a bunch of registry entries by hand)?
Sorry for the delay in answering, I took a week break in the SouthWest :-) The book C++ GUI programming with QT3 ISBN 0-13-124072-2 has a QT3 + Borland C++ Builder. I could not get that to work. My brother has built GCC for winders + Qt Stuff (100M mail me if you want it). That works like a charm! Everything related to the app was confined to the app.exe and qt-mt331.dll I used http://www.dev4pc.com/installer2go.html To make a winders Setup.exe also easy and works well. I have about 10 #ifdef __WIN32__ sprinkeled through the code to use a serial class that I found POSIX or Winders the rest was identical Qt saves and restores settings in REGISTRY or .apprc files. Also easy. I emphasize, This is the first winders app that I've ever built and I spent 1 day doing the winders part and 9 days learning/implementing the QT bit. My background is C a bit of motif some TCL James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
