[texworks] Building TeXworks on WinXP

[Alain Delmotte]

Hi!!

My error: I did forget to change the Texworks.pro file (for INCLUDEPATH 
and LIBS) after moving KDE.
In fact I just checked and this solved the poppler problem and the 
compilation was successful.

So it works, now I have to check the result :-))) and we'll summarize 
for a new .txt file of instructions.

Alain

Alain Delmotte a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I just had a look to the vcproj file and there are many strange things 
> about dependencies, for example: lines 40, 41, 42
>            <Tool
>                Name="VCLinkerTool"
>                
> AdditionalDependencies="c:\programmes\KDE\bin\..\lib\qtmain.lib 
> C:/Program Files/KDE/lib/poppler-qt4.lib C:/Program 
> Files/KDE/lib/poppler.lib 
> C:/texworks/hunspell-1.2.8/src/win_api/Release_dll/libhunspell/libhunspell.lib 
> C:/Program Files/KDE/lib/zlib.lib 
> c:\programmes\KDE\bin\..\lib\QtXml4.lib 
> c:\programmes\KDE\bin\..\lib\QtGui4.lib 
> c:\programmes\KDE\bin\..\lib\QtCore4.lib"
>                
> AdditionalLibraryDirectories="c:\programmes\KDE\bin\..\lib"
>
> What are those "C:/Program Files/KDE/" still exist and not the 
> "c:\programmes\KDE\"???
> And then the mix of / and \ ??
>
> I think I'll have to completely remove KDE and reinstall it from 
> scratch (this time I only moved the KDE folder and adjusted the 
> variable and path).
>
> Alain
>
> Stefan Löffler a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ah, we're getting closer ;).
>>
>> On 2009-01-13 15:41, Alain Delmotte wrote:
>>  
>>> I realized that I had 2 qmake,... one in c:\programmes\QT\bin (this
>>> was for Linguist) and one in c:\program files\KDE\bin.
>>> After checking and finding Linguist in KDE, I uninstalled QT (and 
>>> mingw).
>>>     
>>
>> Yeah, that can confuse Qt, especially when programs/libraries of
>> different versions are used. You may want to try running qmake without
>> the "-specs" option, if everything is set up correctly it _should_ work.
>>
>>
>>  
>>>> 1) Confirm that you have set KDEDIRS and PATH according to
>>>>
>>>>       
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation#Summary_of_Steps 
>>
>>  
>>>>  
>>>>       
>>> I also modified the path, not using %KDEDIRS% but the real c:\program
>>>     
>> files\KDE, and qmake was fount.
>>
>> Did you define KDEDIRS? It may be required by (some parts of) KDE on
>> Windows/Qt.
>>
>>  
>>>> 3) Depending on which directories you find in (2), run qmake in the
>>>> TeXworks source directory with the command (adjust paths as necessary)
>>>>   qmake -tp vc -spec C:\Program Files\KDE\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008
>>>>         
>>> Here I modified as:
>>>
>>> qmake -tp vc -spec C:\Progra~1\KDE\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008
>>>
>>> for the name problem inherited from DOS (space in "program files".)
>>>
>>> I could create the .vcproj file.
>>> But compilation in msvc crashed with (sorry I use French):
>>>
>>> ------ Début de la génération : Projet : TeXworks, Configuration :
>>> Release Win32 ------
>>> RCC res\resources.qrc
>>> 'C:\PROGRAM' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne
>>> ou externe, un programme exécutable ou un fichier de commandes.
>>> Project : error PRJ0019: Un outil a retourné un code d'erreur à partir
>>> de "RCC res\resources.qrc"
>>> Le journal de génération a été enregistré à l'emplacement
>>> "file://c:\texworks\texworks\obj\BuildLog.htm"
>>> TeXworks - 1 erreur(s), 0 avertissement(s)
>>> ========== Génération : 0 a réussi, 1 a échoué, 0 mis à jour, 0 a été
>>> ignoré ==========
>>>
>>> I join the BuildLog.htm file.
>>>
>>> It looks like that again the problem is with the space in "program 
>>> files".
>>>     
>>
>> I recognize this problem. I had it in a different context once. The
>> problem is that MSVC doesn't find the Qt resource compiler. I can offer
>> a few possible solutions:
>> 1) Install KDE on Windows to a location that doesn't contain spaces
>> (from what you wrote I take it that the natural place in French Windows
>> would be C:\Programmes"? The installation notes on the web also give an
>> example without spaces: C:\KDE) Maybe simply moving the directory (and
>> adjusting KDEDIRS/PATH) does the trick.
>> 2) Try
>>    qmake -tp vc -spec "C:\Program Files\KDE\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008"
>> 3) Manually alter the created .vcproj file (it's a text file). I
>> wouldn't actually recommend this for permanent use but if everything
>> else fails replacing all instances of the wrong path with the right one
>> should do the trick at least for figuring out if the rest of the
>> building process succeeds.
>>
>> One final note: whenever you adjust environmental variables
>> (KDEDIRS/PATH) you need to close and re-open all command prompt windows
>> for this to take effect.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>> Stefan
>>
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