[texworks] CMake can be used to build TeXworks on Windows

Paul A Norman paul.a.norman at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 03:07:53 CEST 2011


Thanks Charlie,

Sounds like a good set up.

I look forward to using it, great stuff!

Paul

On 6 August 2011 12:52, Charlie Sharpsteen <chuck at sharpsteen.net> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Just tried using CMake to build TeXworks on Windows. I installed the Qt
> 4.7.3 SDK and used MinGW to compile Hunspell, Freetype and Poppler. This was
> enough to configure a TeXworks build. I had to specify some of the component
> locations manually, but `cmake-gui.exe` helped a lot with that. The
> resulting configuration appears to have built a working copy of
> TeXworks.exe.
> Haven't given any thought to packaging, but I thought I would let everyone
> know that CMake appears to work on Windows without any significant
> difficulties.
> -Charlie


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