Changes between Version 18 and Version 19 of Windows build instructions

Timestamp:

Mar 25, 2008 9:58:28 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

pentagonik

Comment:

Added qtwin for building QT.

Windows build instructions

@@ -61 +61 @@
 === Qt ===
 
-The Qt !VirtualBox frontend (called {{{VirtualBox.exe}}}) is based on the Qt toolkit version 3.3.x. The GPL version of Qt/Windows is based on Qt 4.x and to our knowledge it (officially) only supports the MinGW compiler. When compiling the Qt frontend using MinGW one has to overcome two road blocks:
+The Qt !VirtualBox frontend (called {{{VirtualBox.exe}}}) is based on the Qt toolkit version 3.3.x. The Trolltech GPL version of Qt/Windows is based on Qt 4.x and to our knowledge it (officially) only supports the MinGW compiler. When compiling the Qt frontend using MinGW one has to overcome two road blocks:
  1. The code depends on ATL (again).
  1. The C++ object layout differs so one would have to look into how g++ can call our COM interfaces.
@@ -67 +67 @@
 
 All the code is there, feel free to try make it build and work.
+
+Alternatively, you could use a package called "qtwin", which is located here:
+http://qtwin.sourceforge.net/
+
+This package is a port of the official Qt/x11 sources, which are GPL based, from Trolltech and uses the native Win32 API.
+It supports Cygwin, MinGW, MS Visual C++ and Borland host environments.
+
+To use "qtwin" with VirtualBox, you have to do the following steps:
+
+ 1. Download the package from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49109&package_id=42335
+ 1. Extract the package to <VBoxRoot>\tools\win.x86\qt\v3.3.3\
+ 1. Make sure you installed and set up one of the supported compiler environments on your machine
+ 1. Read the instructions how to build qtwin and build it (configure.bat)
+ 1. Tell "configure.vbs" where to find the newly built Qt sources by using the "--with-Qt3=PATH" parameter
+ 1. You maybe have to slightly fix / adjust some settings or sources to compile successfully
 
 == Running !VirtualBox ==