subsurface-qt running after a native windows build

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 9 October 2013 21:15, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 21:03 +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
>> On 9 October 2013 19:36, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> > Hey Lubomir
>> >
>> > I have a Windows system sitting next to me and would love to reproduce
>> > what you are doing.
>> >
>> > Which tool chain are you using?
>> > Are you building your own Qt / downloading a package? Which one?
>> > How about libmarble?
>> >
>> > questions, questions
>> >
>>
>> first, i need to provide 3/4 patches to fix (partially) the qmake
>> build. i have some questions there also...
>>
>> but it's *quite complicated* and perhaps it would be best if i zip a
>> bunch of stuff and upload it somewhere for people who want to build
>> natively on win32?
>
> I think what some of us want is to actually get a fully self-contained
> setup going. And ideally document this so others can do that as well.
>
> Otherwise I'm quite happy with my cross build setup - that works and
> doesn't require me to deal with Windows more than absolutely
> necessary... I just figured that with the complete reset of libraries
> (well, almost complete) maybe it's more feasible to look into native
> again
>
>> 1) i have -dev packages of libraries that i've used back in the GTK version
>> - due to the lack of package manager i've searched for this libraries
>> online. the GNOME ftp was a good source actually.
>> - these packages i may have made myself by compiling and putting
>> things in /include and /lib folders
>> - -dev packages may had .lib files for MSVC but none for mingw so i
>> had to convert them
>
> I think the handful of libraries we need should be reasonably easy to
> rebuild...
> (famous last words)
>

:)

>> 2) i have .pc files that i've written by hand as libraries don't have
>> them or use different folders
>>
>> 3) latest Qt4.x i've obtained from the official website
>> http://qt-project.org/downloads
>> Qt libraries 4.8.5 for Windows (minGW 4.4, 317 MB) (Info)
>
> Have that
>
>> 4) it does not include a compiler and the nokia FTP is down, so i've
>> found the original it used here:
>> http://nosymbolfound.blogspot.com/2012/12/since-until-now-qt-under-windows-is.html
>> ^ it's a mingw-gcc-4.4.1-sjlj
>
> THANK YOU!!!! I have been missing that and nothing I found anywhere
> ended up working.
>

np, i was lucky to find the toolchain myself.

>> 5) i'm using cmd.exe as shell as the msys-bash/sh have pretty much the
>> same issues their usage is a bit pointless
>
> msys makes things feel more like 'at home' for Linux folks :-)
>
>> 6) i've obtained the marble source as explained here:
>> http://marble.kde.org/sources.php
>>
>> 7) i've compiled it with the same mingw toolchain as explained here:
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/WindowsCompiling#Compiling_Marble_using_MingW
>> i have cmake version 2.8.11.2 and there were no issues directly from cmd.exe
>
> cool. I have my work cut out for me (or for that little Ultrabook
> sitting next to me)
>

the joys of downloading and compiling libraries...

>> 8) i've applied some patches to subsurface-configure.pri
>
> Cool
>
> I assume these are forthcoming? :-)
>

yep, sent the patches earlier.

lubomir
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