[Psi-devel] building 0.11 beta5 on windows (snapshot 20070214)

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On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:15:04PM +0100, Alessandro Malgaroli wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have downloaded psi 0.11 beta5 from the nightly cvs snapshot 20070214.
> It seems I can't succed on compiling it on Windows.
> 
> Steps I made:
> - downloaded and compiled qt4 from sources
> - downloaded mingw
> 
> then i read instruction but found after a bit of trial and error that
> they're confusing: INSTALL says:
>   - QCA 2.0 or compatible (This is temporarily bundled, and an external install
>          is not necessary)

This is right for the current sources.

> 
> but then "doc/build-win.txt" says that downloads are necessary. In
> fact they seem to be and as long as there exists third-party/qca
> directory, this confuses a bit.
> 
> So I then downloaded OpenSSL/Win and then built qca, and qca-openssl
> as doc/build-win.txt says.

you need openssl but you may not have qca(2) or qca-openssl installed 
on you machine to compile psi 0.11 beta5

> 
> I then issued a "mingw32-make clean" in psi src dir (had some compile
> failures before), then did again "qmake; mingw32-make" but building
> process blew up while compiling
> (I got more than 2500 errors, I do not post them all here).

I think that's more or less expected if you have an unsupported qca
installed.

> 
> It seems that it's not finding the includes of OpenSSL to compile
> qca-openssl (but I had compiled it just two minutes before!!).
> 
> I even tried to change win32/Makefile pointing to correct dirs, but
> nothing changes.

I don't know details about what's needs to be configured to build in 
windows. But maybe it will just work without the standalone qca and
qca-openssl. it's possible you just missed openssl the first time.

> 
> Any hint of what's missing?
> 
> [note: building can only be done on windows XP as command lines issued
> by make are longer than 2048 chars, that's the limit on Windows 2000.
> Yes, I still happily own a Windows 2000 system]

i think back in the win9x days there was some option for command.com to
change some of the limits. (i don't know if qt4/Win works well with
cygwin, but cygwin should be able to have longer command lines too)


 - Martin