[Qt-interest] Building QT under from linux using MingW

[Donal O'Connor]

*stephan at software:~$ ls /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/include | grep windows.h
windows.h*

Theres your problem, it's windows.h, not Windows.h - case sensitivity in
Linux.

Could
$cp windows.h Windows.h or create a symbol link as a dirty fix.



On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Stephan Rose <kermos at somrek.net> wrote:

> >Why are you trying to compile a win32-g++ version of QT on linux? That
> doesn't
> >seem like it would work.
>
> It's called cross-compiling. It works, usually. How do you think I write
> software for embedded ARM or Motorola devices? They also use gcc, but of
> course a version of gcc that targets those devices. The same goes for MingW,
> it targets windows but the host is linux. Nothing wrong with that.
>
> And as for the reason why, this is why:
>
> Current steps to build a windows version of my QT app:
>
> 1. Check in changes to SVN
> 2. Reboot into windows
> 3. Get latest changes from SVN in windows
> 4. Build
> 5. Reboot into linux
> 6. Deploy updated executable on update server
>
> If I can cross-compile to MingW from linux, my steps would look like this:
>
> 1. Check in changes to SVN
> 2. Build mingw version
> 3. Deploy updated executable on update server
>
> >
> >And the windows.h file, does it actually exist on the system? Although, it
> >might be part of the mingW distribution.
>
> Yes it exists on the system. mingw exists under linux for cross-compiling
> purposes and comes with all necessary headers and libs.
>
> stephan at software:~$ ls /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/include | grep windows.h
> windows.h
>
> There you go.
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