Re: Windows testing

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 09/05/2012 01:40 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/05/2012 12:48 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:
>
>         I did a build on windows over cygwin. Documentation building was not
>         working, so I disabled it but then run trough fine. A big problem I
>         detected with the gui where the missing icons, is  this a bug or
>         just
>         some missing includes? Another problem was the hangup after a while,
>         without interacting with the gui. But I didn't tested this out
>         further.
>
>
> >     I'm not a Windows user, but I'll ask some questions to help answer
> >     whether this is a bug (probably is, would be my first impression).
> >     Under "libgui/src/icons" of the source tree are a bunch of icons
> >     used in the GUI/IDE.  I assume those are present in your source
> >     tree.  Please verify it is those icons that are not appearing in the
> >     browser as you see it.  If so there is a bug.  If they are visible
> >     and it is some other Qt standard icons that are not visible, then
> >     that might be another issue involving some support libraries not
> >     installed.
> >
> >     I wonder if the icons are being put in a proper directory when
> >     "install" is done.  In any case, try launching the GUI using
> >     "run-octave", if that is possible on Windows.  Try launching the GUI
> >     from the directory "libgui/src/icons", i.e., where the icons exist.
> >       If there are any error messages somewhere, please report those.


> GUI shows up, but still no icons when I start up in the folder
> libgui/src/icons (the icons are there). Also you cannot close the
> program, but this is probably also due to missing icons. calculations
> are possible in the terminal, also opening files and examining variables
> and history.

OK, I looked at the libgui code a bit.  It appears that the icon files 
in the libgui/src/icons directory are used under a development 
environment.  That development environment then creates what is called a 
resource object code (it's actually C code, not object files) in which 
the icons are translated to hex definitions in a structure.  Therefore, 
the icons are part of the GUI code and the GUI is not looking for 
exterior files.

That suggests to me that something is going wrong with the compile/build 
on your system.  I'm not sure if Qt 4 is preferred, but I found on my 
system that I had to remove any Qt 3 files.  Is there some way of 
checking that Qt header files you have on your system are the Qt 4 
variety and not Qt 3?

Dan

PS:  There are some updates in Savannah repository related to the GUI 
directories, mainly adding config.h to the includes:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave