Windows binary saga

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 22 September 2015 at 06:56, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> Just to keep people updated. After a complete A-Z rebuild of every library
> and component from source (I literally removed the build directory
> including the MXE installation and started from scratch) I am nowhere.
>
> Things compile, installer builds and runs successfully on a Windows VM.
> (this requires some manual intervention as otherwise QtWebKit isn't
> built).
> But subsurface.exe then crashes pointing at QtCore as the culprit.
>
> Both Thiago and I tried to figure out what's going wrong there and were
> not successful.
>
> Based on another suggestion from Thiago I am now trying to compile a
> debugging build of Qt5.5 for Windows but that keeps failing. It is
> explicityl turned off for MXE - the reason given should not cause us a
> problem, but my guess is there are other problems hidden by the fact that
> these builds are normally turned off and therefore not tested with MXE.
>
> I thought about building natively on Windows... I actually went out and
> bought a Windows 10 machine today in part to debug things (assuming that
> I'll have more luck there than with just a VM) and in part to re-evaluate
> native builds. But of course that breaks all of my build automation and
> most everything else that I have worked on over the past few years for our
> Windows builds.
>

i don't know the details of the automation, but the good thing about
the native built (with MINGW!) for me at least is that i can archive
everything and if i decide to move it to a new machine i can just
create the same folder structure, set some PATH variables and it would
*just work* (in theory).

in that sense, i can send you my exact folder structure and it will
work for you. i think it's going to be 4 GB archive (2 without Qt)
which i need to put somewhere up with my 1MBit upload speed.

i'm now downloading Qt5.5 to test it out.

> So I guess the real solution is to continue to track down
> a) why I can't create debug builds of Qt5.5 under MXE and
> b) why the release builds that I can create then crash when subsurface.exe
> is run under Windows.
>
> To make matters more interesting I am leaving on a trip on Friday.
>
> So at this point I guess I need to declare 4.5 on hold.
>
> Any help would be extremely welcome. I'll try to check in my latest build
> script with steps to recreate the complete build environment.
>

can you send me an installer? i can try finding out why it crashes...

lubomir
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