[Qt-interest] Problems compiling Qt on Windows

[Dan Milburn]

Duane Hebert wrote:
> 
> "Andreas Pakulat" <apaku at gmx.de> wrote in message 
> news:20100205102417.GA14807 at neo.apaku.dnsalias.org...
>> On 05.02.10 09:16:04, Helge Fredriksen wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I've just been trying to compile Qt from source on the 4.6-stable 
>>> branch,
>>> but I stumble upon the first stone. My platform is win32-msvc2005.
>>
>> Do you have perl installed? If not install it and re-run configure, 
>> during
>> the configure steps there are header files generated in <qt>\include that
>> include the ones in the src\ dir, this step needs perl.
> 
> Are you saying that for the open source version configure needs perl?
> Or is it something new with 4.6?
> This certainly wasn't the case with win commercial 4.5.1 nor with the 
> open source
> embedded source for 4.5.1.

Perl is only needed if you're building straight from the git repository 
as it's used to generate all the header files in the include directory.

With the released source packages this is already done.

Dan