[texworks] Compiling with mingw32

[Paul A Norman]

I am guessing that I need to add some sort of verbose command to

	QMAKE_LFLAGS += -Wl, --export-dynamic

??

On 24 May 2010 15:42, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for that Stefan,
>
> I was skim reading looking for the QTxml phrases, and missed the
> general section on that.
>
> Is it worth just including the batch file in the release (people could
> edit it if they had not followed your path recommendations), and in
> the texworks.pro Win32{ section any way? Wouldn't do anything if the
> QT-4-a type files  are not found?
>
> This is my first experience of building a cross platform  C++ project
> on Windows, like many I've lived a very sheltered life so far, on
> Windows my IDE/Compiler has only required me to nominate package and
> library paths in the past, from drop-down boxes, and it has handled
> all the rest :)
>
> Ok so I  now successfully  have TWLuaPlugin.dll and
> TWPythonPlugin.dll sitting in a newly made c:\texworks\plugins
> directory.
>
> I've done everything from scratch in the c:\texworks directory
>
> mingw32-make clean
> qmake -makefile -win32 TeXworks.pro
> mingw32-make
>
> And I get lots of  this type of message
>
> ./obj/synctex_parser.o:synctex_parser.c:(.text+0x518): first defined here
> ./obj/synctex_parser.o:synctex_parser.c:(.text+0x534): multiple
> definition of `synctex_node_h'
>
> And then this vague message
>
> collect2:ld returned 1 exit status
> mingw32-make[1]: *** [release/TeXworks.exe] Error 1
> mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/texworks'
> mingw32-make: *** [release] Error 2
>
> I have tried to find a log file with the information in it, and then
> I re-directed the out put of mingw32-make to a text file, but could
> not find more specific detail on the ld type error. (" ld returned 1
> exit status")
>
> Paul
>
> On 24 May 2010 02:15, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 2010-05-23 13:02, schrieb Paul A Norman:
>>> I went abck to the beginning and rebuilt the Lua5.1 but I still get
>>>
>>> c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
>>> cannot find -lQtXml
>>>
>>> My KDEDIRS env variable is set up and I've got kde directories
>>> including c:\KDE\include;  in the path and c:\KDE\include\QtXml exists
>>> with all of its files.
>>>
>>
>> OK, but the directories you mention are for include files needed by the
>> compiler. Your error is created later by the linker. The file it is
>> looking for is probably c:\KDE\lib\libQtXml.a. My guess is that you have
>> a libQtXml4.a. In this case I'd suggest you follow the steps documented
>> in the wiki page's Q&A under "When building TeXworks, I get an error
>> about a missing Qt library of the form ".../ld.exe: cannot find
>> -lQtScript". What's wrong?"
>>
>>> May be I have the wrong version of KDE?  I have run
>>> C:\KDE\bin\designer.exe and it reports as QT 4.6
>>>
>>
>> 4.6 should work fine.
>>
>> HTH
>> Stefan
>>
>