[Qt-interest] Building Qt w/Phonon using MinGW

[Chris Meyer]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:30 AM,  <Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch> wrote:
> AFAIK the mingw compiler can't handle the Windows SDK (DirectX) headers. So unfortunatelly you won't be able to compile Phonon support with MinGW :( At least that's what I have last heard. This is NOT a Qt issue, this is a MinGW issue with the DirectX headers, and in the end it is not even a technical issue, but rather a legal issue - or so I understand... but things might have changed.

Please see:
http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/07/15/phonon-and-mingw-a-story-about-true-windows-love/

It sounds like someone has gotten this working at some point. So how to do it?

Incidentally, the Qt docs state that 'Open Source Versions of Qt is
not officially supported for use with any version of Visual Studio.'
This implies that there is no way to build an open source version of
Phonon on Windows... sad. I'm hoping that resolving the header issues
will provide an open source path for Phonon on Windows.

Reference: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/install-win.html