[Qt-interest] QtCreator / phonon link problem on windows

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Tony Rietwyk
<tony.rietwyk at rightsoft.com.au> wrote:
> Thiago wrote:
>
>> Benjamin Sergeant wrote:
>> >I downloaded QtCreator (yesterday's snapshot build) on
>> Windows to try to
>> >play with it (beautiful work), and it works well but I have a link
>> > problem when I create an app that want to use phonon.
>> >
>> >It's probably related to the fact I don't have the Direct Draw SDK
>> >installed. Maybe that could be detected in the Dialog that
>> list the Qt
>> >library you want to link with (QtOpenGL, QtNetwork, QtXml,
>> etc...) when
>> > you create a new project. (adding a feature request in the
>> tracker ?)
>> >
>> >I know there's a specific mailing list for QtCreator but anyway ...
>>
>> Hello Benjamin.
>>
>> The Mingw compiler and headers are not recent enough to compile the
>> DirectShow code present in the Phonon DS9 backend.
>>
>> You need to use MSVC to compile the Phonon library. But that
>> then means
>> it's not compatible with the MinGW compiler that Qt Creator uses.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there's very little we can do. The MinGW folks are
>> reluctant to upgrade their bundled headers.
>
> Hi Thiago,
>
> In that case, are there any plans to get QtCreator working with VS compiler and debugger, as well as MinGW?

It should already work with VC++.

In addition to that, the KDE on Windows project provides DirectX 9
header files for MinGW to be able to build Phonon in Qt 4.4.3 (and I
guess with 4.5, too). You can build Qt yourself or you can download
the binaries directly with the KDE on Windows installer (take a look
at http://windows.kde.org )

> I am interested in replacing the editor in QtCreator with a structured editor for suitable languages, then cross-
> compiling through C++.



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