[gephex-devel] How to build on 4.4 Win32 Help ?

[Sergio Legorreta]

Thanks Georg for the fast reply! This info helps a lot... I'll be sure to
post any progress - and using the right gephex-dev email list! :) ..
hopefully by this weekend .... my windows system is not with me to test
right now..

here is  a link to where I'll be posting my work for in the future -
http://code.google.com/p/youstudio/

gracias!
sergio

On 9/1/07, Georg Seidel <georg at gephex.org> wrote:
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> Hi Sergio!
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> Please don't cross-post to multiple mailinglists.
>
> > I really want to help develop gephex  I've been messing with it for a
> > year now.. but have not been able to figure out how to build it on
> windows.
> >
> > I was successful in buildining it on Ubuntu 7.04  ...
>
> In general, if you want to develop gephex, I would strongly suggest you
> do it on linux. You will avoid a lot of headache that way :)
>
> > Is the build system still working for Win32..? I want to build the new
> > gephex 4.4........i've have been reading many threads + the Gephex Book
> > on how to build from the sources ..
> > http://www.gephex.org/docu/documentation.html#sec.building.win32
> > <http://www.gephex.org/docu/documentation.html#sec.building.win32>  but
> > still have had errors
>
> As the cited section of the gephex book says, that section only applies
> to gephex versions up to 0.4.3. For 0.4.4, there is this wiki page [1].
>
> > I think I read somewhere that George said the build system for Win32 was
> > broken...
> >
> >  ... can anyone provide a .rar or .zip with all the libraries and dlls
> > needed... (or where do we download the right QT 4.x file and other
> > requirements)....   to build the new 4.4 ? (mucho please ?)
> >
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/binarymillenium/downloads/list  - This has
> > helped but I can't succesfully build the all of gephex ... gui engine
> > ect...
> >
> > It would be awesome to have a wiki/page step by step instruction for
> > using the new build system... for the 4.4 release.... Maybe a list of
> > steps  for building  using MinGW (thats just for ffmpeg right?) ...  is
> > there a link to download a free ms visual studio 6 command line
> > interpreter anywhere) ...?
>
> Some remarks.
>
> 1) The gepehx build system on windows is a mess.
> See this thread [2] for details.
>
> 2) AFAIK there is no free vs6 compiler. There is only a free vs7 and
> maybe a free vs8 compiler.
>
> 3) Because we are using Qt 4.x, the gephex GUI _has_ to be built using
> mingw, unless you have a professional license for Qt. Reason: the
> free Qt license ships with mingw support only.
>
> 4) As described in [2], not all modules can currently be built using
> mingw
>
>
> If you still want to build gephex on windows,
> I would suggest you try the following approach:
>
>   A) build gephex-engine and gephex-gui using mingw
>    (you need to install qt 4.x from trolltech and set the
>     QTDIR variable before calling configure)
>
>   B) either use vs6/vs7 to build the types and modules or
>     use the pre-built dlls from the gephex-0.4.4 windows binary [3]
>
>   C) create a gephex folder containing the directories and
>     files just like the binary release [3]
>
> If you have problems with anything (quite likely!), don't hesitate
> to ask (please don't ask on the frei0r mailinglist, though).
>
> > You can probably tell I'm not a very skilled programmer but I been
> > trying to catch up and learn cause I really love Gephex and I think it
> > has a great potential for the future..  I really like the new 4.4 GUI
> > ... being able to customize and control every window is very usefull +
> > the new midi modules are a great help.)
> >
> > sorry for all the questions ... But I really hope I figure this
> > programing thing all out cause I really want to use gephex for a school
> > project for my programing class this semester... I  have setup a
> > google.code page to share any additions I come up with... (I such a
> > newbie i don't know hot to use arch yet)  and am planning on using
> > youtube to setup videos of my progress as well as hoping to have
> > documented tuturiols of new ideas/code and cool gephex stuff for all
> > users to benefit from...
> >
> > well any help
> > would be awesome... There will be a link to theYoutube group @
> > www.YouStudiO.org <http://www.YouStudiO.org> eventually...
> >
> > Alright well Gracias to all of you all (Goerge, Martin , Philip,  Binary
> > Millenium, Paris, Pierre, Marc,  Sven, Andreas, Michael, Axel + all the
> > others)   for the creation of this very fun cool product
>
> Thanks :)
> Glad to hear you like gephex. I think it's great that you want to
> contribute. And I must apologize that the learning curve for the
> gephex build system on windows is so unnecessarily steep :/
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Georg
>
> [1]http://wiki.gephex.org/BuildMinGW
> [2]http://lists.gephex.org/pipermail/gephex-devel/2005-June/000744.html
> [3]http://www.gephex.org/download/win32/gephex-0.4.4.rar
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