Re: Aw: GUi won't start

[Philip Nienhuis]

Doug Stewart wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Stefan Mahr wrote:
>
>             Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Oktober 2013 um 18:07 Uhr
>             Von: PhilipNienhuis<address@hidden
>             <mailto:address@hidden>>
>             An: address@hidden
>             <mailto:address@hidden>
>             Betreff: GUi won't start
>
>             With builds from today (17626:82b1778798d3 and
>             17628:99ffa521ec) I note that
>             the GUI won't start, not even when invoking with --force-gui
>             flag. Neither
>             on Windows (MXE build), nor on Linux(Mageia-2).
>             Is anyone else seeing this too?
>
>             The previous build I made (Oct 7) runs fine.
>
>      >
>      > Did you check the configure output, is the GUI enabled? There's a new
>      > dependency (qt-webkit) since three days.
>
>     Ah, that explains something. Thanks.
>
> Does this mean that we need qt5 now?

No, I don't think so.
1. On my Linux box I've just built with qt-4.8.4 (runs fine now).
2. This web page [1] mentions a development version of Qt 4.7
[1]  http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows

Pulling in just libqtwebkit (+ some 20-25 other small dependencies) did 
the trick on my Linux box.

For MinGW I see that we now also need (according to 
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows):

- ActiveState Perl
- Python2.x
- Ruby

(+ their implicit dependencies)
which may add a few complications to MXE.
Maybe the Linux variants of these dependencies can be used for 
cross-compiling with MXE.

Philip