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

[John D]

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Nienhuis [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:57 PM
To: John D
Cc: 'John W. Eaton'; address@hidden; 'Clemens Buchacher';
'Anirudha Bose'
Subject: Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re:
mxe-installer try 2]

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

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This looks promising to what I am now seeing in Qt building:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTSDK-1166

Answer: run configure.exe not configure. I have yet to try it ...