Re: Building on MinGW : Qt

[John Donoghue]

On 06/13/2013 05:08 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 06/13/2013 05:01 PM, John D wrote:
> > Well, Qt compiled ok - then failed on the install as it tried to install
> > itself on top of itself.
> > The issue I believe is to do with the -prefix option.
> >
> > Specifying it causes qt to look for mkspecs etc where the prefix is 
> > set to.
> > Without it, running make install uses its src directory as the 
> > destination.
> >
> > I guess I will try copying up mkspec dir to the prefix folder first 
> > and the
> > compile.
> > I tried looking for something that overrides where it looks for the 
> > mkspecs,
> > but haven't found anything.
>
> Could you post a preliminary set of diffs so I could also take a look 
> at it?  I'm also just curious to see what changes you have needed to 
> make.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe

Well Qt looks like it installed correctly and allowed qscintilla to 
build so I will do some minor changes to make sure the cross compile 
hasnt changed. if it does not cause anything to be broken when I do a 
cross build, then I will push the patch - it may need some tightening up 
on style :)

My native mingw octave is currently rebuilding, so I will see how it 
goes at pulling at becoming a gui enabled octave.