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

Wed Mar 26 07:32:06 GMT 2008

Well I was able to build the QT stuff, but the results to NOT match what vbox 
configure.vbs is looking for.

Sbox is looking for a few files.  Some are found and some are NOT, like:
   lib/dynamic/qtmain.lib
   lib/dynamic/qt-mt33*.lib

The qt library I built does NOT contain the dynamic folder in lib.  Also, I do 
not have a qt-mt33*.lib file, just a qt-mt3.lib file in the lib parent folder.

I'm not sure what weird version of QT the Innotek was using, but the one I 
downloaded and built does NOT match the requirements of vbox's configure.vbs 
file.  I'm not sure if editing the vbs file will help or if the qt version I 
downloaded is NOT compatible with vbox.

Any sugestions?
Thanks,
Doug.

In article <fscoej$5e2$1 at ger.gmane.org>, 
biteme at bitbasher.net says...
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>
>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.
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>Thanks!!!
>Doug.
>
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>In article <47E8BC6A.80308 at sun.com>, 
Andreas.L at Sun.COM 
>says...
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>>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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>>Sun Microsystems GmbH
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