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

Thu Mar 27 11:14:01 GMT 2008

Hi Doug,

with the latest sources you now should be able to use Qt/free stuff with 
the VBox Qt frontends.
Just put the package under "<VBoxRoot>/tools/win.x86/qt/v3.3.3", compile 
Qt/free from there and
execute "cscript "configure.vbs" again. If you have put Qt/free in 
another location,
you can use the "--with-qt=<Path>" parameter as well.

Additionally, take a look at http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Build_instructions
There I've added the required steps in detail on how to build and use 
Qt/free with VBox.

Hope this helps,

-Andreas.

Doug wrote:
> 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...
>   
>> 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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