Re: [Help-source-highlight] QSource-Highlight 0.2

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Matthias Pospiech wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini schrieb:
> > actually they're both platform independent; it's true that they rely 
> > on a unix-like system for building, but in windows you have both 
> > cygwin and mingw/msys for that.  Indeed there's a windows build of 
> > source-highlight that I did with mingw: 
> > http://www.lorenzobettini.it/software/source-highlight/
> Actually I want to build it on my own. I need a mingw build compatible 
> with the mingw Version of Qt 4.5 and a Visual Studio build for Version 
> 2005, 2008 and soon 2010.
>
> So what I really need is a solution to build the libary on windows on my 
> own.
> What I do not understand in the first place is how I run the configure 
> script without sh.

Hi Matthias

if you want to build it yourself then you also need a shell to run 
configure, and if you use mingw you'd need msys (which provides a shell 
and other tools); but to build source-highlight you also need the boost 
library for mingw.

Thus, if you haven't already setup such an environment mingw/msys it 
might take some time.

For this reason, I've just put up a binary distribution which includes 
source-highlight-qt library, boost regex library, and source-highlight 
(and its library) for window; if you feel like trying it you can 
download it from here 
http://gdn.dsi.unifi.it/~bettini/binaries/source-highlight-qt-win32-0.2.tar.gz 
(it's more than 6 mega of course); using this, I've also built the 
qeditexample (the example that uses source-highlight-qt, downloadable in 
source format from here 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/srchiliteqt/files/), e.g., here's the 
built binary: 
http://gdn.dsi.unifi.it/~bettini/binaries/qeditexample-win32-1.1.zip.

Of course, you still need the qt 4.5 dll libraries; in particular I've 
used the latest 4.5 qt distribution for windows (which also offers to 
download, during its installation, a minimal mingw compiler and 
corresponding .dll which is needed as well).

Note that once you have the above binary package of source-highlight-qt, 
then you can do everything with qmake; indeed qeditexample simply relies 
on qmake.  Once I installed the above binary version (i.e., extracted 
the zip on C:, everything will be extracted into c:\usr\local...), I 
opened the Qt command prompt, and ran

qmake -recursive LIBS+="-L\usr\local\lib -lsource-highlight-qt4 
-lsource-highlight -lboost_regex-mt" INCPATH+="\usr\local\include" 
qeditexample.pro

and then

mingw32-make

Note that qmake might complain since it cannot find pkg-config, the tool 
it will try to use to find source-highlight-qt library, but you can 
ignore it, since you provided it with LIBS and INCPATH.

Thus, if your build environment relies on qmake, you only need the above 
binary package (and you don't need to bother getting a unix shell like 
msys).

Using the same technique I'll build a windows version of 
qsource-highlight; in this case, since it's an application, I can add to 
the zip also the required qt and mingw dlls; instead in the case of 
source-highlight-qt, being a library intended to be used with qt, it's 
safe to assume that the user already has qt (and mingw) installed.

Please, do not hesitate to write for any further help; I'm pretty 
interested in making the use of source-highlight-qt under windows as well.

hope to hear from you soon
cheers
        Lorenzo

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