Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 08/25/2009 04:28 AM, Pok Wilson wrote: >> Good day, >> >> I have successfully compliled command prompt application in for >> Windows platform using cygwin (1.5.25-15). I need to use cygwin as my >> program requires Unix header files and only cygwin allows me to >> compile my program in a Windows environment. >> >> Now i need to improve my program to make it a GUI application. And >> this is where I need help. >> >> I am intending to use QT4.5.3 to create my GUI. And I have read about >> installin QT in cygwin to do that. After reading all the archives, I >> am really confused. I need some clear instructions on how it can be down. >> >> Is it possible for you to guide me in achieving this? I need to >> install QT in cygwin so that I can make my command prompt application >> to become a GUI application. >> I am using QT because it is able to create GUI application for Windows >> and Linux platforms. And more importantly QT is WYSIWYG which makes >> creating a GUI application simpler. >> >> I would definitely accept other suggestions to achieve my objective if >> there are other alternatives. Thanks in advance for your help >> >> Platform: Windows XP Professional >> Compiler: cygwin (1.5.25-15) > > 1.5.25-15 is the version of the "cygwin" package. The compiler (gcc) > version is 3.4.4 for the > 1.5.x release of Cygwin. > > I'm no QT expert (and I actually haven't even touched it in years) but > from what I can see, > only QT3 is available as part of the release. There is this message > from Yaakov a while > back about QT4: > > <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-07/msg00125.html> > > Not sure how far he got, since Cygwin Ports (cygwinports.dotsrc.org) > isn't accessible to me at > the moment. So perhaps there is a QT4 floating around for Cygwin 1.5.x > on that site. If not, > you'd have to build it yourself.
Beware that Yaakov's Qt is for X Windows, not the native Qt. If you install from Trolltech it includes MinGW, which is far from being as complete a development environment as Cygwin but, if you don't need other development libraries will do just fine (usually it is much more complicated). An alternative is cross-building from Linux, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW -- René Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
