[vbox-dev] Help building VBox on WinXP - understanding toolchain

[Doug]

Heya thanks for that link!  I'll download and try it out.

It looks like I have to first compile QT/win before I can use it as a tool for 
VBox, but the QT build instructions don't look too weird.  Hopefully this will 
work.

I'm going to try out qt 3.3.5-5 as it seems about the right time.  If you've 
got this to work and if you used a different qt version please let me know 
just in case 3.3.5-5 doesn't work well.

Thanks!!!
Doug.


In article <47E8BC6A.80308 at sun.com>, Andreas.L at Sun.COM 
says...
>
>
>Hi Doug,
>
>there is a free implementation of Qt/win 3.3.x as Open Source, based on 
>the last Trolltech's Qt/x11 3.3.x branch, which is also Open Source. 
>Using this package, it is possible to find Qt with the "configure.vbs" 
>script and compile the VirtualBox frontend.
>
>Take a look here: http://qtwin.sourceforge.net/
>
>Regards,
>Andreas
>
>
>
>Doug wrote:
>> Well, I worked with this for 1.5 days on the weekend and I've concluded 
that 
>> the average developer cannot build VirtualBox for Windows.
>>
>> I got all the tools installed that are listed in the prerequisites and 
>> configure.vbs finds them all.  Then configure.vbs ABORTS because of QT.
>>
>> It appears (to me) that VirtualBox uses an older (and now unavailable) 
>> proprietary version of QT/win 3.3.x but the current publicly available 
>> versions of QT are version 4.x and greater.
>>
>> It seems that VirtualBox is not compatible with QT 4.x and only works with 
the 
>> not-available QT 3.3.x versions.
>>
>> I did ready the section in the build instructions about the issue with QT.  
At 
>> first I didn't understand the problem (because the documentation was 
written 
>> by a developer who was VERY familiar with the tools).  After doing a bit of 
>> internet snooping it seems that the TOOLS NEEDED TO BUILD VIRTUALBOX FOR 
>> WINDOWS ARE NOT AVAILABLE.  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I cannot 
find 
>> any versions of QT 3.3.x that VirtualBox needs to work.
>>
>> So now the question becomes, is it even possible for someone other than 
>> Innotek/Sun to build VBox for Windows if they haven't purchased the QT 
3.3.x 
>> toolkit?  Also note that Trolltech no longer supports QT versions < 4.0.
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>>
>>
>> In article <F6258B02585E474B97BDF70C70B840DC at DavidLaptop>, 
>> mykeysdavid at gmail.com says...
>>   
>>> If you plan using MinGW only for VirtualBox, then there are folders that 
can 
>>> be used.
>>>
>>> Go to the root VirtualBox directory, then go to "tools/win.x86". Here you 
>>> create the following directory structure, in addition of the already 
>>> existing directories.
>>>
>>> win.x86
>>> -mingw32
>>> --v3.3.3
>>> ---(all the files of MinGW except the Win32 API stuff)
>>> -w32api
>>> --v2.5
>>> ---(The win32 API stuff)
>>>
>>> Then you run again the configure.vbs script and it should detect MinGW 
>>> without any supplemental configuration.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Doug" <biteme at bitbasher.net>
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:58 AM
>>> To: <vbox-dev at virtualbox.org>
>>> Subject: [vbox-dev] Help building VBox on WinXP - understanding toolchain
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've read the information about building vbox on windows here:
>>>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Windows%20build%20instructions
>>>>
>>>> I have no trouble installing all the native Win32 tools (VS2005, SDK,
>>>> DDK, SDL, DXSDK), but the MinGW tools are all just a bunch of files in
>>>> tar archives.
>>>>
>>>> Where do I install all the MinGW files?  Do I need to set them up in any
>>>> special way or run any installer?
>>>>
>>>> There is mention on the page of cygwin but cygwin is NOT listed as a
>>>> prerequisite tool.  Do I need cygwin?  If so, where do I get it and
>>>> which version should I use.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, if someone can give me a few easy steps to get all the needed
>>>> tools correctly installed for WinXP I'd really appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>> Doug.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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