Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re: mxe-installer try 2]

[Philip Nienhuis]

John D wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Nienhuis [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 3:14 PM
> To: John W. Eaton
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> > > Just out of curiosity: why are postgres and libodbc required anyway?
> >
> > I don't know that they are really needed. Are they? They were listed
> > as dependencies of qt when I created my fork of MXE. If they are not
> > needed, then we should drop the dependencies and stop trying to build
> them.
>
> When I built Qt4 4.7.2 for mingw-32 a year or so ago, postgres wasn't
> required. But maybe things changed.
> I suppose I could simply comment out the postgres&  libodbc stuff somewhere
> (have to search for it) and see how far I get. Perhaps too easy, perhaps it
> works.
>
> ---
> Removing it as a dependency from src/qt.mk will make it not bother to try to
> compile postgresql I think - qt.mk will require some other changes as well
> anyway.

Indeed, I dropped postgresql, libodbc++ and freetds (and possibly sqlite 
can be dropped as well) from index.html and in the .mk files in src 
(grepping for those names) and qt now stops in configure, requesting a 
-platform option.

Right at this moment I'm trying to find out what to fill in there using 
google. I found an interesting thread on qt4 dependencies and configure 
options here:
  http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/23171
but that's as far as I could get tonight.

Maybe tomorrow I can pick up again.

Philip