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[830]1This is Qt version 4.6.3 for OS/2 and eCS.
[144]2
[397]3This document contains a brief information on the OS/2 version of the Qt
[524]4library. Please read it carefully before starting your work. You may also
5visit the project page at
[144]6
7 http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4/wiki
8
[188]9to get more information and the latest news and also to report bugs.
[144]10
[397]11To get a brief list of OS/2-specific changes from release to release
12please see the CHANGES.OS2 file included in this distribution.
[144]13
[740]14Please note that this version is binary incompatible with previous versions of
15Qt 4 for OS/2! This is not a behavior of the original Qt library (where versions
16with the same major number are usually binary compatible), but it is due to the
17fact that we continue to add missing features to the OS/2 version ot Qt and this
18cannot be done witout breaking the binary compatibility. On practice, this means
19that you need to recompile your applications with the new version of the Qt
20library in order to make them work with it.
[188]21
[397]22
[740]23
[144]24REQUIREMENTS
25
[397]26In order to compile the Qt library and Qt-based applications, you will need
27the following tools:
[144]28
29 - One of the OS/2 Warp 4, OS/2 Warp 4.5 or eComStation operating systems.
30
[740]31 - GCC compiler version 4.4.2 for OS/2, patched OpenWatcom linker and
32 GNU Make 3.81beta1 or above. The GCC compiler must be set up to use the
33 OpenWatcom linker for linking.
[144]34
[740]35 If you do not have a working GCC environment with the above requirements, it
36 is recommended to download a ready-to-use GCC 4.2.2 distribution from here:
[524]37
[740]38 ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/gcc-4_4_2-complete-20091205.zip
[524]39
[740]40 This distribution includes all tools necessary to compile and build the Qt
41 library from the source code. Just follow the installation instructions
42 contained in the README file inside this ZIP archive to set up the GCC
43 environment.
[524]44
[740]45 Please note that starting from Qt 4.6.2, support for GCC 3.3.5 and earlier
46 versions of the compiler has been dropped and the Qt library will most
47 likely not build if you use one of these compilers. Later versions prior to
48 GCC 4.4.2 may work but they are not tested and not supported.
[950]49
[894]50 - IBM RC (Resource Compiler) Version 5.00.007 (comes with OS/2 Toolkit 4.5)
51 or Version 4.00.011 (comes with eCS 2.0). Other versions may not work
52 correctly.
[524]53
[740]54There is also a set of optional tools which are necessary to enable the selected
55features of the Qt library. If these tools are missing, the Qt configuration
56script (discussed in section "COMPILING QT" below) will automatically disable
57the corresponding feature:
[144]58
[983]59 - Perl 5.8.2 or above. This is required if you want to perform a shadow build
60 of the Qt library (which is a recommended way to go). Please refer to
61 section "COMPILING QT" for more information about shadow builds. Recent
62 builds of Perl for OS/2 are available here:
63
64 http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php?page=perl
65
[954]66 - MAPSYM 4.00.000 (Oct 4 2001) to enable generation of symbol (.SYM) files for
67 DLLs and executables. This tool comes with OS/2 Toolkit 4.5. Note that other
68 versions of this tool may not work correctly.
[144]69
[954]70 - LxLite 1.3.3 or above (not tested) to enable the compression of DLLs and
71 executables (which saves hard disk space and application startup time). If
72 you use a recent version of eComStation (e.g. 2.0 rc6) you will already have
73 LxLite installed. Otherwise, you may take it from here:
74
[740]75 http://www.os2site.com/sw/util/archiver/lxlt133.zip
[144]76
[789]77 - CUPS 1.3.11 or later to support printing in Qt. The CUPS libraries are
78 available at:
[576]79
[789]80 http://download.smedley.info/cups-1.3.11-os2-20090807.zip
[576]81
82 Linking against eCUPS also requires pthread.lib:
83
84 http://web.os2power.com/download/lib/pthread-20100217-os2.zip
85
[788]86 - OpenSSL 0.9.8o or later to support OpenSSL in Qt. The OpenSSL libraries are
87 available at:
[314]88
[789]89 http://bauxite.sakura.ne.jp/tmp/os2/openssl-1.0.0a-os2knix-20100706-runtime.zip
[788]90 http://bauxite.sakura.ne.jp/tmp/os2/openssl-1.0.0a-os2knix-20100706-dev.zip
91
[792]92 - MySQL 5.1 or later for the MySQL Qt plugin. The MySQL libraries are
93 available at:
[788]94
[792]95 http://download.smedley.info/mysql-5.1.51-os2-20101001.zip
[788]96
[792]97 Note that you will also need the above OpenSSL libraries and pthread.lib to
[824]98 be able to use this MySQL build. The MySQL Qt plugin itself will require
99 OpenSSL DLLs in your LIBPATH at runtime.
[788]100
[803]101 - PostgersSQL 9.0.1 or later to support the PostgresSQL Qt plugin. The
102 PostgresSQL libraries are available at:
[792]103
[817]104 http://download.smedley.info/postgresql-9.0.1-os2-20101108.zip
[792]105
[817]106 Note that you will also need libc064x.dll for this PostgresSQL build:
[803]107
108 http://download.smedley.info/libc064x.zip
109
[824]110 Note that you will also need the above OpenSSL libraries and pthread.lib to
111 be able to use this PostgresSQL build. The PostgresSQL Qt plugin itself will
112 require OpenSSL DLLs in your LIBPATH at runtime.
[803]113
114
[824]115
[740]116SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMENT
[397]117
[740]118First of all, make sure that your GCC environment is set up and meets the
119specified requirements. To perform a quick check, you may run the following
120command:
[397]121
[740]122 gcc --version && make --version && wl /version
[397]123
[740]124If the setup is done properly, it will print the versions of the key tools
125to the console.
[144]126
[740]127The next step is to set up the Qt environment. If you installed the Qt
128development libraries from the WPI archive (refer to section "USING OFFICIAL
129BINARY QT ARCHIVES" below for more details about existing WPI archives), you
130will only need to run the supplied "QtEnv.cmd" script which will do all the
131setup job for you. The script is located in the directory where you installed
132the developmnent libraries (or in the WPS folder created by the WPI installer).
[760]133Execute this script in a command line session to make it ready for building
134Qt 4 applications (for example, using the "qmake" command follwed by "make"
135for applications based on qmake project files which most of them are). If you
136go that way, you may skip the rest of this section and proceed directly to
[788]137section "USING OFFICIAL BINARY QT ARCHIVES" below.
[524]138
[740]139If you use the full source code ZIP distribution of the Qt library or work
140directly with the Qt SVN tree, you will need to set up the environment yourself
141by performing the following steps:
[259]142
[740]143 - Add the "bin" subdirectory of the directory where you unpacked the Qt4
144 source tree to PATH and BEGINLIBPATH, like this:
[144]145
[740]146 set PATH=D:\Coding\Qt4\bin;%PATH%
147 set BEGINLIBPATH=D:\Coding\Qt4\bin;%BEGINLIBPATH%
148
149 - Add the system DLLs to the GCC library path with the following command:
150
151 set LIBRARY_PATH=C:\OS2\DLL;C:\MPTN\DLL;%LIBRARY_PATH%
152
153 where C: is your boot drive.
154
[152]155 - Make sure CMD.EXE is your command line processor (the generated makefiles
[258]156 will rely on its 'copy', 'if' and other commands). If you have a Unix shell
157 (SH.EXE) in your environment, you may need to force GNU make to use CMD.EXE
[740]158 by executing the followingn command:
[152]159
[740]160 set MAKESHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
[144]161
[740]162 where C: is your boot drive.
[258]163
[740]164Note that the QTDIR environment variable used in previous Qt versions is not
165used in Qt4 anymore. Therefore, there is no need to set this variable
166explicitly.
[524]167
[740]168There is also no need to set the QMAKESPEC variable explicitly. If it is absent,
169qmake will use the specification stored in the <Qt4_Home>/mkspecs/default
170directory, which on OS/2 always refers to the "os2-g++" specification, the only
171one supported at the present time.
[524]172
[740]173NOTE:
174
175 It is especially important to make sure that there are no traces of any
176 other Watcom or OpenWatcom installation in the environment where you build
177 Qt as it will interfere with the patched OpenWatcom linker we use. This
178 basically means removing all environment variables containing "WATCOM" in
179 their names and also removing references to all those Watcom installations
180 from PATH.
181
182
183
184SETTING UP OPTIONAL TOOLS
185
186The following list describes the steps necessary to set up the optional tools
187that the Qt library depends on:
188
[789]189 - Unzip the CUPS libraries to some directory and set the following environment
190 variables to tell the Qt configure script its location:
[576]191
[792]192 set CUPS_INCLUDEPATH=<path_to_CUPS>\include
193 set CUPS_LIBS=-L<path_to_CUPS>\lib -llibcups.a -L<path_to_pthread> -lpthread.lib
[576]194
[788]195 - Unzip the OpenSSL libraries to some directory and set the following
196 environment variables to tell the Qt configure script its location:
[144]197
[792]198 set OPENSSL_INCLUDEPATH=<path_to_OpenSSL>\include
[788]199 set OPENSSL_LIBS=
[144]200
[788]201 Note that you will also need to place OpenSSL DLLs to BEGINLIBPATH (if they
202 are not already in your LIBPATH) so that Qt applications can find them at
203 runtime:
204
[792]205 set BEGINLIBPATH=<path_to_OpenSSL>\dll;%BEGINLIBPATH%
[788]206
[792]207 - Unzip the MySQL archive to some directory and set the following environment
208 variables to tell the Qt configure script the library location:
[788]209
[792]210 set MYSQL_INCLUDEPATH=<path_to_MySQL>\include'
211 set MYSQL_LIBS=-L<path_to_MySQL>\lib -lmysqlclient_r -L<path_to_OpenSSL>\lib -llibssl -llibcrypto -L<path_to_pthread> -lpthread
[788]212
[824]213 Note that you will also need to place OpenSSL DLLs to BEGINLIBPATH (as
214 described above) because the MySQL plugin links statically to them and Qt
215 will not be able to load it otherwise.
216
[803]217 - Unzip the PostgresSQL archive to some directory and set the following
218 environment variables to tell the Qt configure script the library location:
[792]219
[803]220 set PSQL_INCLUDEPATH=<path_to_PostgresSQL>\include'
221 set PSQL_LIBS=-L<path_to_PostgresSQL>\lib -llibpq -L<path_to_OpenSSL>\lib -llibssl -llibcrypto -L<path_to_pthread> -lpthread
222
[824]223 Note that you will also need to place OpenSSL DLLs to BEGINLIBPATH (as
224 described above) because the PostgresSQL plugin links statically to them and
225 Qt will not be able to load it otherwise.
[803]226
[824]227Note that you need to make sure that OpenSSL DLLs are in BEGINLIBPATH or in
228LIBPATH before Qt attempts to load the SQL plugins for the first time. If it
229fails to load them, it will cache a failure and will not retry even if the
230plugins can be loaded later. To fix that, you need to delete the file
231%HOME%\.config\Trolltech.ini where this cache is stored.
[803]232
[824]233
234
[397]235COMPILING QT
236
[740]237You should skip this section if you installed the Qt development libraries using
238the WPI archive (that already contains compiled release versions of the
239libraries) and proceed directly to the next section.
[397]240
[983]241When the environment is set up as described above, you may build the Qt library.
242There are two distinct ways of doing this: in the source tree or in a separate
243directory of your choice. In the first case, all results of the build process
244(intermediate object files as well as final executables and DLLs) will be placed
245right in the source tree. In the second case, they will be placed in the
246separate directory -- this is called a shadow build.
[144]247
[983]248Shadow builds are the recommended way to go because they keep the source
249directories clean and also allow to use the same source tree for creating any
250number of builds, each with its own build options.
[144]251
[983]252To perform a shadow build, do the following steps:
[144]253
[983]254 1. Create a directory outside the Qt4 source tree.
[144]255
[983]256 2. Go to that directory.
[144]257
[983]258 3. Type:
[144]259
[983]260 <source_tree>\configure.cmd
[243]261
[983]262 where <source_tree> is the directory containing the Qt4 source tree. This
263 will create all necessary configuration files, headers, Makefiles and will
264 also build the qmake tool which is necessary to control the rest of the
265 build process (note that building qmake will take some time).
266
267 4. Once the configure process is finished, type:
268
269 make
270
271 Note that by the default the shadow build will produce the release version of
272 the Qt library. This may be changed by passing command line options to
[990]273 configure.cmd at step 3. For example, the debug build can be requested using
274 the '-debug' option. For a full list of options supported by configure.cmd,
275 type:
[983]276
[990]277 configure.cmd -h
278
[983]279To perform a normal build, you execute 'configure.cmd' followed by 'make' right
280in the directory containing the Qt4 source tree. The default in this case is to
281build both the debug and release versions of the Qt library.
282
283Please keep in mind that in case of the dual debug and release build (where both
284flavors are stored in the same build directory), only DLL and LIB files will be
285separated (because the debug versions of them will have the 'd' suffix in the
286file name). Executable files are normally taken from the release build but,
287since the file names are identical, sometimes they may be overwritten by the
288debug versions (e.g. when you rebuild parts of the library later). For this
289reason, performing dual builds is not recommended.
290
291The Qt library is huge so the build process will take several hours (or even
292several dozen of hours) depending on your hardware and configure options.
293
[740]294Once the library is successfully built, you may try to compile the demos and
295examples by visiting the individual example subdirectories in the source tree
[983]296and typing 'qmake' followed by 'make'.
[144]297
[402]298NOTE:
[144]299
[402]300 This version of Qt for OS/2 includes the Extended system tray plugin for
[314]301 XCenter/eCenter which is necessary to enable Qt support for the special
302 notification area on the XCenter/eCenter panel (called the "system tray")
303 which is used by many long-running applications to display their status.
304 In order to activate this support, you need to install this plugin to your
[1040]305 XCenter or eCenter. The plugin is split in two DLLs, the plugin DLL and
306 the API DLL. Both are built as part of the normal build process and can be
307 found in the "src\3rdparty\os2\xsystray\tmp\dist" subdirectory of the Qt
308 build tree. In order to install them, do the following:
[188]309
[1040]310 a. Copy "plugin\xsystray.dll" to "<XWorkplace_install>\plugins\xcenter\"
311 (on eComStation, this will be "C:\ecs\system\ewps\plugins\xcenter\"
312 where C: is your boot drive).
[188]313
[1040]314 b. Copy "apilib\xsystray.dll" to a directory listed in LIBPATH.
315
[314]316 b. Restart WPS.
317
318 c. Add the "Extended system tray" widget to the XCenter/eCenter panel using
319 the XCenter context menu ('Create new widget').
320
321 Note that if you upgrade from the previous version of the plugin then
322 please unlock xsystray.dll in the target folder using the UNLOCK.EXE
323 utility (which you can find in the LxLite package, for example) before
324 performing step a., otherwise the copy operation will fail.
325
[397]326IMPORTANT NOTE:
[314]327
[397]328 Please take into account that the Qt library you build on your own as
329 described above is NOT intended for wide distribution with Qt applications
330 you port or create. Such private Qt builds help you develop Qt applications
331 (because you can easily debug your program and parts of the Qt framework at
332 the source level) but being widely distributed they will create a so-called
333 DLL hell when a program running on a user computer crashes because it picks
334 up a wrong build of the Qt library. This will happen because even a single
335 change to Qt configuration options may make your build binary incompatible
336 with another build. And even if you convince the user to isolate different
[740]337 DLLs (using LIBPATHSTRICT and BEGINLIBPATH) it will create another major
338 problem: two different Qt applications will load two different copies of Qt
339 into memory which will create an unnecessary overhead by doubling the
340 amount of used system resources.
[314]341
[397]342 In order to nicely solve this problem, netlabs.org provides the official
[740]343 binary builds of the Qt library distributed as WPI archives which are
[397]344 described in the next section.
345
346
347
[740]348USING OFFICIAL BINARY QT ARCHIVES
[397]349
350For your convenience, netlabs.org provides the following binary distributions
[740]351of the Qt library (where X_Y_Z is the Qt version number) distributed as WPI
352archives:
[397]353
[740]354 qt-lib-X_Y_Z.wpi - Runtime DLLs and binaries ("lib" archive)
355 qt-dev-X_Y_Z.wpi - Development libraries, tools and headers ("dev" archive)
[397]356
[740]357These archives are called the official binary archives of the Qt library for
358OS/2. An official binary archive contains the most complete Qt build that
359enables all features of the Qt library and includes all standard Qt plugins
360implemented for the OS/2 platform at the time of the release.
[397]361
[740]362The "lib" archive contains the release versions of DLLs (and may contain a few
[397]363helper binaries) necessary to run applications created using the Qt framework.
[740]364This package is usually installed by end users together with Qt applications
[397]365they want to use.
366
[740]367The "dev" archive contains pre-built release versions of import libraries and
[397]368a complete set of C++ include headers of the Qt framework. This package is used
369by developers and porters of Qt applications to build release versions of the
[740]370applications that are binary compatibie with the Qt runtime provided by the
371official "lib" archive described above. Using the "dev" package requires the
372same environment as described in section "SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMET" above.
[397]373
[740]374Please note again that the "dev" archive is intended to make a final release
375build of the Qt application which you do when you decide to ship a new version
376to the end users -- makes sure that the deployed application will share the same
377Qt runtime with other Qt applications. However, for daily work it is highly
378recommended that you build the debug version of the Qt library yourself (using
379the full source code ZIP archive or directly from SVN) as described in section
380"COMPILING QT").
[524]381
[740]382Besides the "lib" and the "dev" archives, the following official archives exist
[541]383that you may also find useful:
[397]384
[541]385 qt-examples-X_Y_Z.wpi - Demo and example sources ("examples")
[397]386
[740]387The "examples" archive contains the source code and compiled binaries of the
388demo and example applications shipped with Qt. They serve as a good
389demonstration of the Qt library features and it is recommended to look at them.
390The binaries are compiled using the official "lib" archive. Please note that
391some demos and examples may miss from the arcvhice since not all features have
392been implemented in the OS/2 version of Qt yet.
[408]393
[397]394NOTE:
395
396 All .DLL and .EXE files of the official binary build contain a DESCRIPTION
397 string with the vendor field set to "netlabs.org" (by contrast, all custom
398 Qt builds will set the vendor field to what the USER environment variable
399 contains or to "anonymous" if USER is not set). Please note that you must
400 NOT set vendor to "netlabs.org" when creating your own builds of the Qt
[740]401 library because it will make it difficult to identify various distributions
402 and track possible problems with the builds.
[397]403
404
405
[541]406QMAKE CONFIG OPTIONS
407
[740]408The following CONFIG options of the qmake tool have a special meaning in OS/2:
[541]409
410 windows Turns on generation of PM (WINDOWAPI) executables. By
411 default, this option is set for release builds that link
412 to the Qt GUI library.
413
414 console Turns on generation of text mode (WINDOWCOMPAT) executables.
415 By default, this option is set when setting the "windows"
416 option is not appropriate (see above).
417
418In addition, qmake recognizes the following OS/2-specific CONFIG options:
419
420 map Turns on generation of the .map files for executables and
[957]421 DLLs. Note that this option is not set by default.
[541]422
[954]423 sym Turns on generation of the .sym files for executables and
424 DLLs. The option is turned on by default if configure.cmd
425 is able to find the MAPSYM tool in PATH.
426
[541]427 exepack Turns on compression for executables and DLLs. The option is
428 turned on by default for release builds if configure.cmd
[954]429 is able to find a compression tool (LxLite) in PATH.
[541]430
431 highmem Turns on high memory usage for dynamically allocated memory
432 in DLLs and executables. When this option is set, a special
433 compiler flag (-Zhigh-mem for GCC) is used to enable high
434 memory support in the C library (LIBC). This option is set
435 by default so that all Qt DLLs and Qt applications built
436 with qmake are enabled for high memory. Note that high
437 memory support must be enabled for all LIBC-based DLLs
438 linked to the executable as well as for the executable
439 itself: high memory usage will be disabled if one of them
440 votes against it.
441
[740]442 export_all Cause the linker to export all public symbols in a generated
443 DLL. By default (when this option is absent), only the
444 symbols marked with the __declspec(dllexport) compiler
445 directive in the source files.
[541]446
447
[740]448
449PRINTING SUPPORT
450
451Starting with version 4.6.2, Qt for OS/2 supports printing through the CUPS
452framework (provided that this support is enabled when building Qt, see the
453respective sections in the beginning of this document). The OS/2 implementation
454of the CUPS framework is provided by the eCUPS package available at
455http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/.
456
457The Qt Runtime detects the presence of eCUPS in the system on the fly and talks
458to the CUPS daemon directly, bypassing the standard OS/2 printing subsystem.
459This means that in order to print from Qt applications, you don't need to create
460and configure printer objects using the standard OS/2 system printer setup
461procedure -- you only need to install eCUPS and configure your printers in
462there. Please refer to the eCUPS user manual to obtain the detailed instructions
463on how to configure CUPS printers.
464
465
466
[870]467FILE WATCHING FUNCTION
468
469Qt supports a mechanism of notifying Qt applications about changes to the file
470system, such as creating files or directories, changing their attributes or
471deleting them, even if these changes are performed outside Qt applications. In
472particular, this is used in standard Qt open file dialogs where you can
473instantly observe changes made to the directory contents by third-party
474applications running in the background.
475
476In order to support this functionality on OS/2, Qt relies on the file watching
477mechanism provided by the Presentation Manager. This mechanism is a global
478system resource so that only one process may use it at a time. In a standard
479installation of OS/2 or eComStation this resource is exclusively used by the
480Workplace Shell and is not available to other applications. In order to overcome
481this limitation, a respective function was included to xWorkplace, the famous
482WPS extension (which lives inside the WPS process), starting with version 1.0.8.
483This function allows any number of other processes to receive notifications
484about file system changes and it gets utilized by Qt as well.
485
486If an earlier version of xWorkplace is installed on the user system, or if no
487xWorkplace extension is present at all, Qt uses its own method of detecting
488file system changes which is based on polling the directory contents in regular
489intervals. While this method works well for a small number of watched
490directories with just few files in them, it may significantly slow down the
491system if you work with a directory containing thousands of files.
492
493Therefore, is strongly recommended to install or upgrade to xWorkplace version
4941.0.8 or above to make sure that you will not suffer from the described problem.
495You will also need to make sure that the "Enable folder auto-refresh" check box
496located on the "Folder Views" page in the Workplace Shell settings notebook is
497turned on in order to enable the notification mechanism (note that you may need
498to reboot after changing its state).
499
500
501
[429]502ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
503
504The Qt library recognizes a number of OS/2-specific environment variables that
505affect its functionality at runtime. The table below lists these variables and
506their meaning:
507
[740]508 QT_PM_NO_DIVE If set, Qt will not use DIVE (direct interface video
509 extensions) for painting widgets even if DIVE (which
510 provides a much faster painting speed than the
511 regular GPI approach) is available. Currently, this
512 is the default setting if the Panorama video driver
513 is detected because its DIVE implementation contains
514 a number of bugs.
515
516 QT_PM_DIVE=<mode> Enables using DIVE for painting widgets. <mode> is
517 one of:
518
519 - FB (direct framebuffer access, which is the
520 fastest mode but causes the curruption of the
521 screen under the software mouse pointer due to
522 the limitation of DIVE). If this mode is not
523 available, BLIT will be used (see below).
524
525 - FBSWM (the same FB but hides the mouse pointer
526 before painting which introduces mouse flicker
527 and may be a bit slower than the raw FB).
528
529 - BLIT (slower than both FB and FBSWM but prevents
530 screen corruption under the mouse pointer and
[807]531 does not produce the mouse pointer flicker
[740]532 effect).
533
534 This variable is ignored if QT_PM_NO_DIVE is set. If
535 neither this nor the QT_PM_NO_DIVE variable is set,
536 the FBSWM mode is used by default (unless the
537 current video driver is Panorama, see above).
538
[429]539 QT_PM_NO_SOUND_SHARE If set, Qt will open the audio device in exclusive
540 only one sound may be played on the computer at a
[950]541 time. This mode is necessary for some sound cards
[429]542 when using the Uniaud audio driver as it is known to
[950]543 have problems with simultaneous playback.
544 Qt builds,
[429]545
546 QT_PM_SOUND_SHARE The opposite to the above. If set, Qt will open the
[950]547 audio device in shared mode. This is the default
548 behavior if neither this nor the
549 QT_PM_NO_SOUND_SHARE variable is set. This variable
550 is ignored if QT_PM_NO_SOUND_SHARE is set.
[429]551
552 QT_PM_NO_REGISTRY If set, Qt will not use the Open32 registry to store
553 application settings with QSettings. Instead, plain
554 text INI files will be used for both NativeFormat
555 and IniFormat. Due to a number of problems in the
556 Open32 registry implementation (that may easily lead
557 to registry corruption), this is the default
558 behavior if neither this nor the QT_PM_REGISTRY
559 variable is set.
560
561 QT_PM_REGISTRY The opposite to the above. If set, Qt will use the
[624]562 Open32 registry to store application settings. This
563 variable is ignored if QT_PM_NO_REGISTRY is set.
[429]564
[624]565 QT_PM_NO_SYSTEM_LOCALE If set, Qt will ignore the regional settings from
566 the system locale object found in the Country
567 Palette located in the System Setup folder and will
568 take them from the internal Qt locale database
569 according to the current country and language
570 settings. Due to the fact that this internal Qt
571 database usually has a better representation of the
572 regional settings, this is the default behavior if
573 neither this nor the QT_PM_SYSTEM_LOCALE variable is
574 set.
[429]575
[624]576 QT_PM_SYSTEM_LOCALE The opposite to the above. If set, Qt will use the
577 regional settings as found in the default locale
578 object set the Country Palette. This variable is
579 ignored if QT_PM_NO_SYSTEM_LOCALE is set.
[429]580
[624]581 LANG This variable can be used to override the default
582 country and language used in the Qt application both
583 for regional settings and for translations. The
584 format of the value is "ll_CC" where <ll> is the
585 two-letter ISO language code and <CC> is the two-
586 letter ISO country code. Note that if this variable
587 is not set, Qt will derive the language and country
588 from the system country code specified in the
589 COUNTRY statement of CONFIG.SYS.
590
591
592
[740]593COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
[576]594
[740]595Any Qt executable recognizes a number of command line options that may change
596the behavior of the Qt application. Here are the most interesting ones:
[576]597
[740]598 -style <name> Changes the default Qt widget style (theme) to a
599 style with the given name. The buiil-in styles which
600 are always available in the official build include:
601 "windows" (currently, the default on OS/2), "motif",
602 "cde", "plastique" and "cleanlooks". Other styles
603 may be also provided by the style plugins.
[576]604
[740]605 -graphicssystem <name> Changes the graphics system used to paint widgets.
606 On OS/2, only two values are supported: "native"
607 (the default one) and "raster". The "native" system
608 uses DIVE (direct interface video extensions) when
609 it is available. If DIVE is not available or if it
610 is disabled (see the QT_PM_NO_DIVE environment
611 variable description for details), the "raster"
612 system will be automatically selected as a fallback.
[576]613
614
[740]615
[144]616CURRENT LIMITATIONS
617
[1034]618 1. configure.cmd does not understand all command line options understood by
[830]619 configure scripts on other platforms. If you want to customize your build
620 of the Qt library (which is normally not recommended and not supported),
621 you may try to modify configure.cmd itself.
[524]622
[1034]623 2. OS/2 bitmap fonts are not supported. Use TTF or Type1 (PFB) fonts with Qt.
[144]624
[1034]625 3. No support for widget masks and trapsparency in top-level widgets and in
626 child widgets with native window IDs (Presentation Manager limitation).
627
[740]628 4. No native PM style, but Qt will use fonts and colors from the current
[320]629 OS/2 theme. Hint: if your default OS/2 font is "WarpSans", install the
630 "Workplace Sans" TTF font from Alex Taylor to get more native look & feel.
[740]631 It is recommended to install version 0.7 of the Normal face and version 0.3
[320]632 of the Bold face which you can find here:
[144]633
[320]634 http://users.socis.ca/~ataylo00/creative/fonts/workplace/
[287]635
[740]636 5. QProcess: when starting PM applications from text-mode applications, the
[524]637 returned PID is a PID of the intermediate cmd.exe process, not the target
638 application.
[145]639
[740]640 6. The following classes are not available due to their rare usage or low
[524]641 importance on the OS/2 platform: QSharedMemory, QSystemSemaphore,
[740]642 QInputContext. On the source level, a number of macros is defined to
643 reflect this, respectively: QT_NO_SYSTEMSEMAPHORE, QT_NO_SHAREDMEMORY,
644 QT_NO_IM. Normally, Qt applications use these macros in the form of
645 "#fndef QT_NO_SOMEFEATURE" to isolate the relevant parts of the code that
646 uses these classes so that the application still builds when the
647 corresponding feature is missing.
[243]648
[740]649 7. No qt3support module. This functionality is rarely necessary in mature
650 real life Qt applications and has low priority. In the code, it is
651 reflected by the absense of the QT3_SUPPORT macro.
[145]652
[740]653 8. The following features are missing (either because of the lack of the
654 required support from the system side or because of the rare usage):
655
656 - IPV6 support in the network module (QT_NO_IPV6 is defined).
657 - phonon module (QT_NO_PHONON is defined).
658 - multimedia module (QT_NO_MULTIMEDIA is defined).
659 - OpenGL module (QT_NO_OPENGL is defined).
660 - declarative module (QT_NO_DECLARATIVE is defined).
661 - tablet support (QT_NO_TABLET is defined).
662
[524]663 See the project roadmap for more information on the current progress and
664 future plans:
[144]665
[524]666 http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4/roadmap
[144]667
[524]668 Feel free to request new features and report bugs using the project bug
669 tracker abaialble at:
[188]670
[524]671 http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4/report
672
673
674
[144]675CREDITS
676
[1040]677Dmitriy Kuminov (development)
[144]678Silvan Scherrer (management)
679
680netlabs.org (hosting & support)
681
682Nokia Corporation (original Qt library)
683
684We also want to THANK all individuals and organizations who made the donations
685to this project and helped to make it happen. Please visit
686
687 http://qt.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml
688
689to get the full list of sponsors and to find information on how you can support
690the project.
691
692
693Qt is a trademark of Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
694OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are trademarks of the IBM Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
695eComStation is a trademark of Serenity Systems International and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
696Etc.
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