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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: linker error -- help needed
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2009-12-22 22:21:07
Message-ID: 200912222321.07831.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 December 2009 20:43:59 Werner Trobin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 20:38:42 Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 22. December 2009 19.33.58 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
> > > > > It is trying to link to gtk-libraries(glib). Maybe this is the
> > > > > cause?
> > > >
> > > > No, that's actually right: the wv2 library depends on glib.
> > >
> > > Thats.. interesting.
> > > So we have people trying to get libs to not depend on Qt, but we do
> > > depend on glib?
> > > Am I the only one that thinks thats wrong?
> >
> > glib is pulled in by libgsf2, the library wv2 uses to read OLE files. By
> >  the time wv2 was started, gsf2 was the best choice, maybe there's a
> > viable alternative by now. It's all encapsulated in the OLEStream*
> > classes, you just need to replace the backend.
> 
> Check out filters/kpresenter/powerpoint/libppt/pole.{h,cpp}. This file
> actually exists in multiple incarnations within KOffice. I don't know
>  anything about the relative performance, ease of use or featurefulness of
>  pole and libgsf2.

I've thought about that, but porting wv2 to pole is a bigger job than just 
putting wv2 into the koffice tree -- and while I agree the glib dependency 
sucks, in practice Qt depends on glib anyway on most, if not all 
distributions.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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