Re: QSource-Highlight 0.2

Matthias Pospiech wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini schrieb:
>> Matthias Pospiech wrote:
>>> Lorenzo Bettini schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> actually they're both platform independent; it's true that they rely 
>>>> on a unix-like system for building, but in windows you have both 
>>>> cygwin and mingw/msys for that.  Indeed there's a windows build of 
>>>> source-highlight that I did with mingw: 
>>>> http://www.lorenzobettini.it/software/source-highlight/
>>>>
>>> Actually I want to build it on my own. I need a mingw build 
>>> compatible with the mingw Version of Qt 4.5 and a Visual Studio build 
>>> for Version 2005, 2008 and soon 2010.
>>>
>>> So what I really need is a solution to build the libary on windows on 
>>> my own.
>>> What I do not understand in the first place is how I run the 
>>> configure script without sh.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Matthias
>>
>> if you want to build it yourself then you also need a shell to run 
>> configure, and if you use mingw you'd need msys (which provides a 
>> shell and other tools); but to build source-highlight you also need 
>> the boost library for mingw.
>>
>> Thus, if you haven't already setup such an environment mingw/msys it 
>> might take some time.
>>
> I was trying to set up a system with msys, but did not have success so 
> far. However what bothers me most is the compilation with msvc.
> The only build step I could find is this one: 
> http://folti.blogs.balabit.com/2009/08/compiling-autoconfmake-using-sources.html 
> 
> which is really a way to fight around all problems of autoconf on 
> non.unix platform issues and not a clean solution.
> 
> I wonder how difficult building of source-highlight really is. I think 
> putting all cpp+h files in a qmake project costs me only a few minutes. 
> Only the boost libary might be a problem since it does not build as a 
> shared libary on mingw.

Hi Matthias

probably I missed something: do you use mingw or msvc?  As for msvc I 
cannot tell, since I basically don't use those build tools.

As for boost, why do you actually need a dll?  can't you just use a 
static build of boost, like the one I inserted in the archive?

Have you tried to use the binary archive I told you about yesterday?
http://gdn.dsi.unifi.it/~bettini/binaries/source-highlight-qt-win32-0.2.tar.gz

If you need a version which is compatible with mingw and qt, then this 
version should do, since those are the tools I've built them with.

As for using qmake for source-highlight (and most importantly 
source-highlight-qt) it's a good idea.  Note that I'm not willing to 
abandon autotools, but I think I can also provide the .pro files to be 
able to build them with qmake.  Note that in that case it would only be 
a build of the library and binary and not of the documentation and 
related stuff.

hope to hear from you soon

cheers
	Lorenzo

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