{"id":141,"date":"2010-11-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/?p=141"},"modified":"2010-11-23T15:08:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T22:08:59","slug":"compiling-qtdbus-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/compiling-qtdbus-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Compiling QtDBus for Windows…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep needing to do this. Each time I do, I have to rediscover how to do it. <\/p>\n

Worse, I’m doing it slightly differently each time. <\/p>\n

For interested parties, here’s what I just did for Qt 4.7.1. Worked for Qt 4.7.0, too.<\/p>\n

I’m using MinGW, cmake, libexpat, and of course Qt. To begin, you need to build dbus itself for Windows, and then you can rebuild <\/p>\n

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  1. Make sure you have MinGW installed and correctly configured. Its bin directory should be in your path.\n
  2. Download cmake<\/a>. Install.<\/li>\n
  3. Download and install libexpat from\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.winkde.org\/pub\/kde\/ports\/win32\/repository-4.4\/win32libs\/<\/a>(as suggested in the dbus documentation). You’ll want the lib archive. You’ll need the include directory no matter what for when you build QtDBus. Unpack these zips to C:\\Program Files\\win32libs<\/code>.<\/li>\n
  4. Grab dbus from the repository<\/a>, put it in c:\\dbus-1.4.0<\/code>.<\/li>\n
  5. Edit dbus-1.4.0\\cmake\\CMakeLists.txt<\/code>, add\n
    \r\nset(LIBEXPAT_LIBRARIES \"C:\/Program Files\/win32libs\/lib\/libexpat.lib\")\r\nset(LIBEXPAT_INCLUDE_DIR \"C:\/Program Files\/win32libs\/include\")\r\nset(LIBEXPAT_FOUND ON)\r\n<\/pre>\n
    after
    \nproject(dbus)<\/code><\/li>\n
  6. Start a Windows Command Prompt<\/li>\n
  7. mdkir c:\\dbus && cd c:\\dbus<\/code><\/li>\n
  8. cmake -G \"MinGW Makefiles\" ..\\dbus-1.4.0\\cmake -DDBUS_USE_EXPAT=on<\/code><\/li>\n
  9. mingw32-make<\/code><\/li>\n
  10. Add c:\\dbus\\bin<\/code> to your path.<\/li>\n
  11. Edit c:\\qt\\4.7.1\\src\\dbus\\dbus.pro<\/code>:\n
    \r\nwin32 {\r\n    wince*:LIBS_PRIVATE += -lws2\r\n    else:LIBS_PRIVATE += -lws2_32 \\\r\n    -ladvapi32 \\\r\n    -lnetapi32 \\\r\n    -luser32\r\n    CONFIG(debug, debug|release):LIBS_PRIVATE += -ldbus-1 -Lc:\/dbus\/bin\r\n    else:LIBS_PRIVATE += -ldbus-1 -Lc:\/dbus\/bin\r\n    INCLUDEPATH += c:\/dbus-1.4.0 c:\/dbus\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    You don’t need to build QtDBus separately to begin with the way I do here (step 13) — but it’s much faster to do that and know it’s working than it is to start the configure \/ mingw32-make step, walk away, and find out an hour later that it died someplace in the middle because you messed up the path to dbus or something. <\/p>\n
  12. Start a Qt Command Shell.<\/li>\n
  13. cd c:\\qt\\4.7.1\\src\\dbus && qmake && mingw32-make<\/code><\/li>\n
  14. cd ..\\.. && configure -dbus && mingw32-make<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Your mileage may vary. I seem to remember fixing at least one compilation error in dbus at one point, but don’t remember precisely where or why. It wasn’t hard to do, though — something about a missing argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    I keep needing to do this. Each time I do, I have to rediscover how to do it. Worse, I’m doing it slightly differently each time. For interested parties, here’s what I just did for Qt 4.7.1. Worked for Qt 4.7.0, too. I’m using MinGW, cmake, libexpat, and of course Qt. To begin, you need … Continue reading Compiling QtDBus for Windows…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-qt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}