Re: Cygwin, ptys, porting Quint to Windows

[John Swensen]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 
> On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:15 PM, John Swensen wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 15, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Jacob Dawid wrote:
>> 
>>> Can someone confirm a successful build on MacOS?
>> 
>> I can build and run on OSX (with a few modifications).  However, it often 
>> crashes or misbehaves in the following situations:
>> 1) It always crashes on exit
>> 2) It always crashes the first time it loads after it crashes previously
>> 3) Plotting isn't available.  It complains that there is no graphical display
>> 4) It is very sluggish.  Keypresses take 0.1-0.25 seconds to show up in the 
>> terminal
>> I realize I am not giving very much information about the crashes, but don't 
>> have time right now to investigate further.
>> 
>> Here are the items that I had to fix (generate with git diff > patch.diff) 
>> to get it to compile.
>> <patch.diff>
>> Some of the changes had to do with building on OSX (e.g. the util.h for PTY 
>> stuff and edits to the PRO file to not build the .app bundle).
>> Some of the changes were because my compiler wanted a cast for the 
>> KeyModifier enum.
>> One of the changes is a bug (I think).  Were you intending to add and 
>> integer to a QString?  I couldn't even get it to compile unless I moved the 
>> parenthesis to add the integers to the width of the QString (see the changes 
>> in NumberedCodeEdit).
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> John
> 
> John,
> 
> How did you satisfy "qmake-qt4" on MacOS?
> 
> Ben


There is a qt4-mac-devel package provided by MacPorts.  However, for whatever 
reason it is just qmake, not qmake-qt4, when done this way.  It is qmake for QT 
4.7, even though the script is just qmake.

John