Re: Aw: GUi won't start

[John Donoghue]

On 10/11/2013 04:08 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Message: 7 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:54:00 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis 
> <address@hidden> To: Doug Stewart <address@hidden> Cc: 
> Octave Maintainers List <address@hidden> Subject: Re: 
> Aw: GUi won't start Message-ID: <address@hidden> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Philip 
> Nienhuis wrote:
> > >Doug Stewart wrote:
> > > >>On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden
> > > >><mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>Stefan Mahr wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Oktober 2013 um 18:07 Uhr
> > > >>Von: PhilipNienhuis<address@hidden
> > > >><mailto:address@hidden>>
> > > >>An:address@hidden
> > > >><mailto:address@hidden>
> > > >>Betreff: GUi won't start
> > > >>
> > > >>With builds from today (17626:82b1778798d3 and
> > > >>17628:99ffa521ec) I note that
> > > >>the GUI won't start, not even when invoking with --force-gui
> > > >>flag. Neither
> > > >>on Windows (MXE build), nor on Linux(Mageia-2).
> > > >>Is anyone else seeing this too?
> > > >>
> > > >>The previous build I made (Oct 7) runs fine.
> > > >>
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >Did you check the configure output, is the GUI enabled? There's a new
> > > > >> >dependency (qt-webkit) since three days.
> > > >>
> > > >>Ah, that explains something. Thanks.
> > >  >
> > >  > Does this mean that we need qt5 now?
> > >
> > >No, I don't think so.
> > >1. On my Linux box I've just built with qt-4.8.4 (runs fine now).
> > >2. This web page [1] mentions a development version of Qt 4.7
> > >[1]http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows
> > >
> > >Pulling in just libqtwebkit (+ some 20-25 other small dependencies) did
> > >the trick on my Linux box.
> > >
> > >For MinGW I see that we now also need (according to
> > >http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows):
> > >
> > >- ActiveState Perl
> > >- Python2.x
> > >- Ruby
> > >
> > >(+ their implicit dependencies)
> > >which may add a few complications to MXE.
> > >Maybe the Linux variants of these dependencies can be used for
> > >cross-compiling with MXE.
> Looks like getting qt-webkit in MXE is extremely easy: just deleting the
> line
>
> -no-webkit \
>
> from file
>
> <mxe-octave-dir>/src/qt.mk
>
> gets QtWebKit4.dll built. In the mxe log for octave I see that the GUI
> will be (cross-) built now.
>
> Philip

I pushed the removal of -no-webkit change a couple of days ago for 
mxe-octave
http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/db4c94cfc651
The only issue I have now is that the Qt build now takes 2x as long and 
fails on my 8Gb RAM laptop when it runs out of memory :( Cross build 
works fine though.