[vbox-dev] Help building VBox on WinXP - understanding toolchain
Doug
biteme at bitbasher.net
Fri Mar 28 23:53:00 GMT 2008
Thanks Andreas for all your help.
I was able to get the free qt/win 3.3.8 to build. I had to edit configure.vbs
because it was looking for qt-mt33* but the file I built is named qt-mt3* so I
changed configure.vbs to only search for one "3" characters not two. I used
the --with-qt=path to locate my qt install/build folder.
After building qt/win 3.3.8, I also "cheated" and copied everything in qt/lib
to qt/lib/dynamic as that is where vbox looks for qt-mt3.lib. When I build
qt/win 3.3.8 it does not create a "dynamic" folder in the "lib" folder. If
the lib\dynamic folder does not exist with qt files, then configure.vbs will
not find the qt stuff.
I am current building vbox ose 1.5.6, so perhaps some of my limitations above
are no longer an issue with the current SVN build.
A few other minor issues I came across...
1. One of vbox's tools requires zlib1.dll. This is not documented in the
prerequisites section of the win32 build documentation. I just downloaded
zlib1.dll and placed it on my path and the tool then worked.
2. The win32 build documentation states that I can use either the latest
Windows Platform SDK or one that comes with Visual C++ (in my case, Visual
Studio 2005 Pro). So I used the one that comes with VS2005, but the vbox
build then fails because it cannot find "MIDL" and "MC" in the SDK\bin path.
I solved this problem by copying these tools from my VC2005 bin folder over to
the SDK\bin folder and then vbox found those tools.
After all that I was able to get vbox 1.5.6 to build to completion under win32
(YAY!). I haven't tried running it yet, but I think my next goal is to retry
this with the current SVN build.
Doug.
In article <47EB8179.4090504 at sun.com>, Andreas.L at Sun.COM
says...
>
>
>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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