Re: [Chicken-users] qt-egg on windows

[felix winkelmann]

On 1/20/07, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> Daniel Sadilek wrote:
> >
> > So, the build of the qt egg under windows does not work out of the
> > box. I would like to help with that but I am not skilled enough in
> > this whole qmake, egg building process to provide a fully working
> > patch that does not break the build on other systems :)
>
> You have mentioned "qmake" several times.  Chicken doesn't use qmake, it
> uses CMake, and only to build Chicken itself.  So I'm not understanding
> what you mean by "this whole qmake, egg building process."

qmake just generates makefiles from a Qt project specification, but shares
the general problem with all of Qt: it's quite helpful in the general case, but
breaks down horribly when you have special needs (like compiling dynamically
loaded shared libs, among other things). I've heard die-hard Qt/KDE hackers
speak in contempt of qmake...

To avoid figuring out all the necessary compile options, the qt.setup script
invokes qmake and than does some fiddling to pick out the .so and install
it as a dynamically loadable shared object (it is compiled as a normal
dynamic library - which is for example not the same as a shared object on
Mac OS X).


cheers,
felix