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List:       kde-perl
Subject:    Re: [Kde-perl] Build instructions
From:       Ashley Winters <qaqortog () nwlink ! com>
Date:       2002-06-05 16:47:17
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On Wednesday 05 June 2002 05:03 am, Terry A. Bowling wrote:
> Ashley,
> Thanks to a tip from Richard Dale, I've been quietly reading this list.
> Excellent work to all of you involved!!!  I work in a group that is
> being forced to migrate from Digital Unix on alpha's to Win2k <kicking
> and screaming>.  So we are looking for something to give our perl
> scripts a gui.  I love using KDE so I wanted to try perlQt.  We're
> currently starting to use perltk because it's been around long enough
> and seems robust enough to do everything we want.  But I would love to
> use perlqt.  How far off/difficult would it be to get this all to work
> on a win32 platform?  The dependencies sound like they will be a road
> block.  I'm unclear about what smokeqt and kalyptus are.

The only real dependency is Qt-3.0. The build system of SmokeQt is based off 
KDE's, which won't be portable to Windows, but it could easily be replaced 
with a qmake-generated Makefile.

Kalyptus has to generate new files for Qt/Windows, but I don't think that 
would be a problem. Kalyptus generates the source-code for... I suppose it 
would be smokeqt.dll.

I don't have a commercial license for Qt anymore, so the latest Windows 
version of Qt I have is Qt-2.3, which wouldn't work with my rewrite of 
PerlQt. Not to mention I deleted the partition which had Windows with Visual 
Studio.

If someone could compile smokeqt.dll using qmake, I would guess it would be a 
pretty simple matter to get PerlQt running on Windows. I can't say for 
certain, though. However, smokeqt changes far, far less often than PerlQt, so 
there wouldn't need to be much (if any) maintenence on it. Nobody can 
distribute binaries of smokeqt, but we could bundle the generated source-code 
for smokeqt.dll along with the qmake profile and distribute that.

I expect PerlQt to be compiled on Windows someday. It's just a matter of 
finding someone with enough motivation+skill+license to do it. Or even 
someone with enough patience to send us each compile error, one at a time. :)

Ashley Winters

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