[830] | 1 | This is Qt version 4.6.3 for OS/2 and eCS.
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[144] | 2 |
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[397] | 3 | This document contains a brief information on the OS/2 version of the Qt
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[524] | 4 | library. Please read it carefully before starting your work. You may also
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| 5 | visit the project page at
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[144] | 6 |
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| 7 | http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4/wiki
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| 8 |
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[188] | 9 | to get more information and the latest news and also to report bugs.
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[144] | 10 |
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[397] | 11 | To get a brief list of OS/2-specific changes from release to release
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| 12 | please see the CHANGES.OS2 file included in this distribution.
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[144] | 13 |
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[740] | 14 | Please note that this version is binary incompatible with previous versions of
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| 15 | Qt 4 for OS/2! This is not a behavior of the original Qt library (where versions
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| 16 | with the same major number are usually binary compatible), but it is due to the
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| 17 | fact that we continue to add missing features to the OS/2 version ot Qt and this
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| 18 | cannot be done witout breaking the binary compatibility. On practice, this means
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| 19 | that you need to recompile your applications with the new version of the Qt
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| 20 | library in order to make them work with it.
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[188] | 21 |
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[397] | 22 |
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[740] | 23 |
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[144] | 24 | REQUIREMENTS
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| 25 |
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[397] | 26 | In order to compile the Qt library and Qt-based applications, you will need
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| 27 | the following tools:
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[144] | 28 |
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| 29 | - One of the OS/2 Warp 4, OS/2 Warp 4.5 or eComStation operating systems.
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| 30 |
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[740] | 31 | - GCC compiler version 4.4.2 for OS/2, patched OpenWatcom linker and
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| 32 | GNU Make 3.81beta1 or above. The GCC compiler must be set up to use the
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| 33 | OpenWatcom linker for linking.
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[144] | 34 |
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[740] | 35 | If you do not have a working GCC environment with the above requirements, it
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| 36 | is recommended to download a ready-to-use GCC 4.2.2 distribution from here:
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[524] | 37 |
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[740] | 38 | ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/gcc-4_4_2-complete-20091205.zip
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[524] | 39 |
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[740] | 40 | This distribution includes all tools necessary to compile and build the Qt
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| 41 | library from the source code. Just follow the installation instructions
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| 42 | contained in the README file inside this ZIP archive to set up the GCC
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| 43 | environment.
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[524] | 44 |
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[740] | 45 | Please note that starting from Qt 4.6.2, support for GCC 3.3.5 and earlier
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| 46 | versions of the compiler has been dropped and the Qt library will most
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| 47 | likely not build if you use one of these compilers. Later versions prior to
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| 48 | GCC 4.4.2 may work but they are not tested and not supported.
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[894] | 49 |
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| 50 | - IBM RC (Resource Compiler) Version 5.00.007 (comes with OS/2 Toolkit 4.5)
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| 51 | or Version 4.00.011 (comes with eCS 2.0). Other versions may not work
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| 52 | correctly.
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[524] | 53 |
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[740] | 54 | There is also a set of optional tools which are necessary to enable the selected
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| 55 | features of the Qt library. If these tools are missing, the Qt configuration
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| 56 | script (discussed in section "COMPILING QT" below) will automatically disable
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| 57 | the corresponding feature:
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[144] | 58 |
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[740] | 59 | - LxLite 1.3.3 or above (not tested) to enable the compression of Qt DLLs and
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| 60 | application executables (which saves hard disk space and application startup
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| 61 | time). If you use a recent version of eComStation (e.g. 2.0 rc6) you will
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| 62 | already have LxLite installed. Otherwise, you may take it from here:
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[144] | 63 |
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[740] | 64 | http://www.os2site.com/sw/util/archiver/lxlt133.zip
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[144] | 65 |
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[789] | 66 | - CUPS 1.3.11 or later to support printing in Qt. The CUPS libraries are
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| 67 | available at:
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[576] | 68 |
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[789] | 69 | http://download.smedley.info/cups-1.3.11-os2-20090807.zip
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[576] | 70 |
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| 71 | Linking against eCUPS also requires pthread.lib:
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| 72 |
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| 73 | http://web.os2power.com/download/lib/pthread-20100217-os2.zip
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| 74 |
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[788] | 75 | - OpenSSL 0.9.8o or later to support OpenSSL in Qt. The OpenSSL libraries are
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| 76 | available at:
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[314] | 77 |
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[789] | 78 | http://bauxite.sakura.ne.jp/tmp/os2/openssl-1.0.0a-os2knix-20100706-runtime.zip
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[788] | 79 | http://bauxite.sakura.ne.jp/tmp/os2/openssl-1.0.0a-os2knix-20100706-dev.zip
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| 80 |
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[792] | 81 | - MySQL 5.1 or later for the MySQL Qt plugin. The MySQL libraries are
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| 82 | available at:
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[788] | 83 |
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[792] | 84 | http://download.smedley.info/mysql-5.1.51-os2-20101001.zip
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[788] | 85 |
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[792] | 86 | Note that you will also need the above OpenSSL libraries and pthread.lib to
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[824] | 87 | be able to use this MySQL build. The MySQL Qt plugin itself will require
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| 88 | OpenSSL DLLs in your LIBPATH at runtime.
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[788] | 89 |
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[803] | 90 | - PostgersSQL 9.0.1 or later to support the PostgresSQL Qt plugin. The
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| 91 | PostgresSQL libraries are available at:
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[792] | 92 |
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[817] | 93 | http://download.smedley.info/postgresql-9.0.1-os2-20101108.zip
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[792] | 94 |
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[817] | 95 | Note that you will also need libc064x.dll for this PostgresSQL build:
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[803] | 96 |
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| 97 | http://download.smedley.info/libc064x.zip
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| 98 |
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[824] | 99 | Note that you will also need the above OpenSSL libraries and pthread.lib to
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| 100 | be able to use this PostgresSQL build. The PostgresSQL Qt plugin itself will
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| 101 | require OpenSSL DLLs in your LIBPATH at runtime.
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[803] | 102 |
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| 103 |
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[824] | 104 |
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[740] | 105 | SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMENT
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[397] | 106 |
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[740] | 107 | First of all, make sure that your GCC environment is set up and meets the
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| 108 | specified requirements. To perform a quick check, you may run the following
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| 109 | command:
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[397] | 110 |
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[740] | 111 | gcc --version && make --version && wl /version
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[397] | 112 |
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[740] | 113 | If the setup is done properly, it will print the versions of the key tools
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| 114 | to the console.
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[144] | 115 |
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[740] | 116 | The next step is to set up the Qt environment. If you installed the Qt
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| 117 | development libraries from the WPI archive (refer to section "USING OFFICIAL
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| 118 | BINARY QT ARCHIVES" below for more details about existing WPI archives), you
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| 119 | will only need to run the supplied "QtEnv.cmd" script which will do all the
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| 120 | setup job for you. The script is located in the directory where you installed
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| 121 | the developmnent libraries (or in the WPS folder created by the WPI installer).
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[760] | 122 | Execute this script in a command line session to make it ready for building
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| 123 | Qt 4 applications (for example, using the "qmake" command follwed by "make"
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| 124 | for applications based on qmake project files which most of them are). If you
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| 125 | go that way, you may skip the rest of this section and proceed directly to
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[788] | 126 | section "USING OFFICIAL BINARY QT ARCHIVES" below.
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[524] | 127 |
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[740] | 128 | If you use the full source code ZIP distribution of the Qt library or work
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| 129 | directly with the Qt SVN tree, you will need to set up the environment yourself
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| 130 | by performing the following steps:
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[259] | 131 |
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[740] | 132 | - Add the "bin" subdirectory of the directory where you unpacked the Qt4
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| 133 | source tree to PATH and BEGINLIBPATH, like this:
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[144] | 134 |
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[740] | 135 | set PATH=D:\Coding\Qt4\bin;%PATH%
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| 136 | set BEGINLIBPATH=D:\Coding\Qt4\bin;%BEGINLIBPATH%
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| 137 |
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| 138 | - Add the system DLLs to the GCC library path with the following command:
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| 139 |
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| 140 | set LIBRARY_PATH=C:\OS2\DLL;C:\MPTN\DLL;%LIBRARY_PATH%
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| 141 |
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| 142 | where C: is your boot drive.
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| 143 |
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[152] | 144 | - Make sure CMD.EXE is your command line processor (the generated makefiles
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[258] | 145 | will rely on its 'copy', 'if' and other commands). If you have a Unix shell
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| 146 | (SH.EXE) in your environment, you may need to force GNU make to use CMD.EXE
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[740] | 147 | by executing the followingn command:
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[152] | 148 |
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[740] | 149 | set MAKESHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
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[144] | 150 |
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[740] | 151 | where C: is your boot drive.
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[258] | 152 |
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[740] | 153 | Note that the QTDIR environment variable used in previous Qt versions is not
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| 154 | used in Qt4 anymore. Therefore, there is no need to set this variable
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| 155 | explicitly.
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[524] | 156 |
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[740] | 157 | There is also no need to set the QMAKESPEC variable explicitly. If it is absent,
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| 158 | qmake will use the specification stored in the <Qt4_Home>/mkspecs/default
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| 159 | directory, which on OS/2 always refers to the "os2-g++" specification, the only
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| 160 | one supported at the present time.
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[524] | 161 |
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[740] | 162 | NOTE:
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| 163 |
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| 164 | It is especially important to make sure that there are no traces of any
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| 165 | other Watcom or OpenWatcom installation in the environment where you build
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| 166 | Qt as it will interfere with the patched OpenWatcom linker we use. This
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| 167 | basically means removing all environment variables containing "WATCOM" in
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| 168 | their names and also removing references to all those Watcom installations
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| 169 | from PATH.
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| 170 |
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| 171 |
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| 172 |
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| 173 | SETTING UP OPTIONAL TOOLS
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| 174 |
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| 175 | The following list describes the steps necessary to set up the optional tools
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| 176 | that the Qt library depends on:
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| 177 |
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[789] | 178 | - Unzip the CUPS libraries to some directory and set the following environment
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| 179 | variables to tell the Qt configure script its location:
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[576] | 180 |
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[792] | 181 | set CUPS_INCLUDEPATH=<path_to_CUPS>\include
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| 182 | set CUPS_LIBS=-L<path_to_CUPS>\lib -llibcups.a -L<path_to_pthread> -lpthread.lib
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[576] | 183 |
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[788] | 184 | - Unzip the OpenSSL libraries to some directory and set the following
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| 185 | environment variables to tell the Qt configure script its location:
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[144] | 186 |
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[792] | 187 | set OPENSSL_INCLUDEPATH=<path_to_OpenSSL>\include
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[788] | 188 | set OPENSSL_LIBS=
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[144] | 189 |
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[788] | 190 | Note that you will also need to place OpenSSL DLLs to BEGINLIBPATH (if they
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| 191 | are not already in your LIBPATH) so that Qt applications can find them at
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| 192 | runtime:
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| 193 |
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[792] | 194 | set BEGINLIBPATH=<path_to_OpenSSL>\dll;%BEGINLIBPATH%
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[788] | 195 |
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[792] | 196 | - Unzip the MySQL archive to some directory and set the following environment
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| 197 | variables to tell the Qt configure script the library location:
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[788] | 198 |
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[792] | 199 | set MYSQL_INCLUDEPATH=<path_to_MySQL>\include'
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| 200 | set MYSQL_LIBS=-L<path_to_MySQL>\lib -lmysqlclient_r -L<path_to_OpenSSL>\lib -llibssl -llibcrypto -L<path_to_pthread> -lpthread
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[788] | 201 |
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[824] | 202 | Note that you will also need to place OpenSSL DLLs to BEGINLIBPATH (as
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| 203 | described above) because the MySQL plugin links statically to them and Qt
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| 204 | will not be able to load it otherwise.
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| 205 |
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[803] | 206 | - Unzip the PostgresSQL archive to some directory and set the following
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| 207 | environment variables to tell the Qt configure script the library location:
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[792] | 208 |
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[803] | 209 | set PSQL_INCLUDEPATH=<path_to_PostgresSQL>\include'
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| 210 | set PSQL_LIBS=-L<path_to_PostgresSQL>\lib -llibpq -L<path_to_OpenSSL>\lib -llibssl -llibcrypto -L<path_to_pthread> -lpthread
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| 211 |
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[824] | 212 | Note that you will also need to place OpenSSL DLLs to BEGINLIBPATH (as
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| 213 | described above) because the PostgresSQL plugin links statically to them and
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| 214 | Qt will not be able to load it otherwise.
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[803] | 215 |
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[824] | 216 | Note that you need to make sure that OpenSSL DLLs are in BEGINLIBPATH or in
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| 217 | LIBPATH before Qt attempts to load the SQL plugins for the first time. If it
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| 218 | fails to load them, it will cache a failure and will not retry even if the
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| 219 | plugins can be loaded later. To fix that, you need to delete the file
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| 220 | %HOME%\.config\Trolltech.ini where this cache is stored.
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[803] | 221 |
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[824] | 222 |
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| 223 |
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[397] | 224 | COMPILING QT
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| 225 |
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[740] | 226 | You should skip this section if you installed the Qt development libraries using
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| 227 | the WPI archive (that already contains compiled release versions of the
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| 228 | libraries) and proceed directly to the next section.
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[397] | 229 |
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[144] | 230 | When the environment is set up, go to the directory where you unpacked the
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| 231 | Qt4 source tree and type:
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| 232 |
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| 233 | configure.cmd
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| 234 |
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[740] | 235 | This will set up the Qt library (by creating necessary configuration and include
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| 236 | files and a bunch of Makefiles for variuos components) and build the qmake tool.
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[144] | 237 |
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[402] | 238 | The next step is to type:
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[144] | 239 |
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[148] | 240 | make
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[144] | 241 |
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[740] | 242 | This will compile and link the Qt library. Note that by default both the release
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[148] | 243 | and the debug version of the library are built (please be patient, it may take
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| 244 | quite some time depending on your hardware). The release and debug libraries can
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| 245 | co-exist in the same source tree and may be used in parallel: all the debug DLLs
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| 246 | get a 'd' letter in their name preceeding the Qt major version number and use
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| 247 | separate directories for object files.
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[144] | 248 |
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[740] | 249 | To save time, you may build the release and the debug versions of the Qt library
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| 250 | separately by typing 'make release' or 'make debug' accordingly instead of just
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| 251 | 'make'.
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[243] | 252 |
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[740] | 253 | Once the library is successfully built, you may try to compile the demos and
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| 254 | examples by visiting the individual example subdirectories in the source tree
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| 255 | and typing 'qmake' followed by one of 'make', 'make release' or 'make debug'
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| 256 | in that subdirectory.
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[144] | 257 |
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[402] | 258 | NOTE:
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[144] | 259 |
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[402] | 260 | This version of Qt for OS/2 includes the Extended system tray plugin for
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[314] | 261 | XCenter/eCenter which is necessary to enable Qt support for the special
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| 262 | notification area on the XCenter/eCenter panel (called the "system tray")
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| 263 | which is used by many long-running applications to display their status.
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| 264 | In order to activate this support, you need to install this plugin to your
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| 265 | XCenter or eCenter. The plugin is built during the normal Qt build process
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| 266 | and can be found in the file \plugins\xcenter\xsystray.dll in the Qt source
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| 267 | tree. In order to install the plugin, do the following:
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[188] | 268 |
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[314] | 269 | a. Copy xsystray.dll to <XWorkplace installation folder>\plugins\xcenter\
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| 270 | (on eComStation, this will be C:\ecs\system\ewps\plugins\xcenter\ where
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| 271 | C: is your boot drive).
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[188] | 272 |
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[314] | 273 | b. Restart WPS.
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| 274 |
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| 275 | c. Add the "Extended system tray" widget to the XCenter/eCenter panel using
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| 276 | the XCenter context menu ('Create new widget').
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| 277 |
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| 278 | Note that if you upgrade from the previous version of the plugin then
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| 279 | please unlock xsystray.dll in the target folder using the UNLOCK.EXE
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| 280 | utility (which you can find in the LxLite package, for example) before
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| 281 | performing step a., otherwise the copy operation will fail.
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| 282 |
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[397] | 283 | IMPORTANT NOTE:
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[314] | 284 |
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[397] | 285 | Please take into account that the Qt library you build on your own as
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| 286 | described above is NOT intended for wide distribution with Qt applications
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| 287 | you port or create. Such private Qt builds help you develop Qt applications
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| 288 | (because you can easily debug your program and parts of the Qt framework at
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| 289 | the source level) but being widely distributed they will create a so-called
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| 290 | DLL hell when a program running on a user computer crashes because it picks
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| 291 | up a wrong build of the Qt library. This will happen because even a single
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| 292 | change to Qt configuration options may make your build binary incompatible
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| 293 | with another build. And even if you convince the user to isolate different
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[740] | 294 | DLLs (using LIBPATHSTRICT and BEGINLIBPATH) it will create another major
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| 295 | problem: two different Qt applications will load two different copies of Qt
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| 296 | into memory which will create an unnecessary overhead by doubling the
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| 297 | amount of used system resources.
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[314] | 298 |
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[397] | 299 | In order to nicely solve this problem, netlabs.org provides the official
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[740] | 300 | binary builds of the Qt library distributed as WPI archives which are
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[397] | 301 | described in the next section.
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| 302 |
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| 303 |
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| 304 |
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[740] | 305 | USING OFFICIAL BINARY QT ARCHIVES
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[397] | 306 |
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| 307 | For your convenience, netlabs.org provides the following binary distributions
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[740] | 308 | of the Qt library (where X_Y_Z is the Qt version number) distributed as WPI
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| 309 | archives:
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[397] | 310 |
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[740] | 311 | qt-lib-X_Y_Z.wpi - Runtime DLLs and binaries ("lib" archive)
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| 312 | qt-dev-X_Y_Z.wpi - Development libraries, tools and headers ("dev" archive)
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[397] | 313 |
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[740] | 314 | These archives are called the official binary archives of the Qt library for
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| 315 | OS/2. An official binary archive contains the most complete Qt build that
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| 316 | enables all features of the Qt library and includes all standard Qt plugins
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| 317 | implemented for the OS/2 platform at the time of the release.
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[397] | 318 |
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[740] | 319 | The "lib" archive contains the release versions of DLLs (and may contain a few
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[397] | 320 | helper binaries) necessary to run applications created using the Qt framework.
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[740] | 321 | This package is usually installed by end users together with Qt applications
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[397] | 322 | they want to use.
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| 323 |
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[740] | 324 | The "dev" archive contains pre-built release versions of import libraries and
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[397] | 325 | a complete set of C++ include headers of the Qt framework. This package is used
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| 326 | by developers and porters of Qt applications to build release versions of the
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[740] | 327 | applications that are binary compatibie with the Qt runtime provided by the
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| 328 | official "lib" archive described above. Using the "dev" package requires the
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| 329 | same environment as described in section "SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMET" above.
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[397] | 330 |
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[740] | 331 | Please note again that the "dev" archive is intended to make a final release
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| 332 | build of the Qt application which you do when you decide to ship a new version
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| 333 | to the end users -- makes sure that the deployed application will share the same
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| 334 | Qt runtime with other Qt applications. However, for daily work it is highly
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| 335 | recommended that you build the debug version of the Qt library yourself (using
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| 336 | the full source code ZIP archive or directly from SVN) as described in section
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| 337 | "COMPILING QT").
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[524] | 338 |
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[740] | 339 | Besides the "lib" and the "dev" archives, the following official archives exist
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[541] | 340 | that you may also find useful:
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[397] | 341 |
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[541] | 342 | qt-examples-X_Y_Z.wpi - Demo and example sources ("examples")
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[397] | 343 |
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[740] | 344 | The "examples" archive contains the source code and compiled binaries of the
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| 345 | demo and example applications shipped with Qt. They serve as a good
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| 346 | demonstration of the Qt library features and it is recommended to look at them.
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| 347 | The binaries are compiled using the official "lib" archive. Please note that
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| 348 | some demos and examples may miss from the arcvhice since not all features have
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| 349 | been implemented in the OS/2 version of Qt yet.
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[408] | 350 |
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[397] | 351 | NOTE:
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| 352 |
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| 353 | All .DLL and .EXE files of the official binary build contain a DESCRIPTION
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| 354 | string with the vendor field set to "netlabs.org" (by contrast, all custom
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| 355 | Qt builds will set the vendor field to what the USER environment variable
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| 356 | contains or to "anonymous" if USER is not set). Please note that you must
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| 357 | NOT set vendor to "netlabs.org" when creating your own builds of the Qt
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[740] | 358 | library because it will make it difficult to identify various distributions
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| 359 | and track possible problems with the builds.
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[397] | 360 |
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| 361 |
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| 362 |
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[541] | 363 | QMAKE CONFIG OPTIONS
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| 364 |
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[740] | 365 | The following CONFIG options of the qmake tool have a special meaning in OS/2:
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[541] | 366 |
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| 367 | windows Turns on generation of PM (WINDOWAPI) executables. By
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| 368 | default, this option is set for release builds that link
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| 369 | to the Qt GUI library.
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| 370 |
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| 371 | console Turns on generation of text mode (WINDOWCOMPAT) executables.
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| 372 | By default, this option is set when setting the "windows"
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| 373 | option is not appropriate (see above).
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| 374 |
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| 375 | In addition, qmake recognizes the following OS/2-specific CONFIG options:
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| 376 |
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| 377 | map Turns on generation of the .map files for executables and
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| 378 | DLLs. This option is set by default.
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| 379 |
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| 380 | exepack Turns on compression for executables and DLLs. The option is
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| 381 | turned on by default for release builds if configure.cmd
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| 382 | finds a compression tool (LxLite) in PATH.
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| 383 |
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| 384 | highmem Turns on high memory usage for dynamically allocated memory
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| 385 | in DLLs and executables. When this option is set, a special
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| 386 | compiler flag (-Zhigh-mem for GCC) is used to enable high
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| 387 | memory support in the C library (LIBC). This option is set
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| 388 | by default so that all Qt DLLs and Qt applications built
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| 389 | with qmake are enabled for high memory. Note that high
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| 390 | memory support must be enabled for all LIBC-based DLLs
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| 391 | linked to the executable as well as for the executable
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| 392 | itself: high memory usage will be disabled if one of them
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| 393 | votes against it.
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| 394 |
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[740] | 395 | export_all Cause the linker to export all public symbols in a generated
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| 396 | DLL. By default (when this option is absent), only the
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| 397 | symbols marked with the __declspec(dllexport) compiler
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| 398 | directive in the source files.
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[541] | 399 |
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| 400 |
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[740] | 401 |
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| 402 | PRINTING SUPPORT
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| 403 |
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| 404 | Starting with version 4.6.2, Qt for OS/2 supports printing through the CUPS
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| 405 | framework (provided that this support is enabled when building Qt, see the
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| 406 | respective sections in the beginning of this document). The OS/2 implementation
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| 407 | of the CUPS framework is provided by the eCUPS package available at
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| 408 | http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/.
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| 409 |
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| 410 | The Qt Runtime detects the presence of eCUPS in the system on the fly and talks
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| 411 | to the CUPS daemon directly, bypassing the standard OS/2 printing subsystem.
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| 412 | This means that in order to print from Qt applications, you don't need to create
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| 413 | and configure printer objects using the standard OS/2 system printer setup
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| 414 | procedure -- you only need to install eCUPS and configure your printers in
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| 415 | there. Please refer to the eCUPS user manual to obtain the detailed instructions
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| 416 | on how to configure CUPS printers.
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| 417 |
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| 418 |
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| 419 |
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[870] | 420 | FILE WATCHING FUNCTION
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| 421 |
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| 422 | Qt supports a mechanism of notifying Qt applications about changes to the file
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| 423 | system, such as creating files or directories, changing their attributes or
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| 424 | deleting them, even if these changes are performed outside Qt applications. In
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| 425 | particular, this is used in standard Qt open file dialogs where you can
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| 426 | instantly observe changes made to the directory contents by third-party
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| 427 | applications running in the background.
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| 428 |
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| 429 | In order to support this functionality on OS/2, Qt relies on the file watching
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| 430 | mechanism provided by the Presentation Manager. This mechanism is a global
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| 431 | system resource so that only one process may use it at a time. In a standard
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| 432 | installation of OS/2 or eComStation this resource is exclusively used by the
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| 433 | Workplace Shell and is not available to other applications. In order to overcome
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| 434 | this limitation, a respective function was included to xWorkplace, the famous
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| 435 | WPS extension (which lives inside the WPS process), starting with version 1.0.8.
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| 436 | This function allows any number of other processes to receive notifications
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| 437 | about file system changes and it gets utilized by Qt as well.
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| 438 |
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| 439 | If an earlier version of xWorkplace is installed on the user system, or if no
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| 440 | xWorkplace extension is present at all, Qt uses its own method of detecting
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| 441 | file system changes which is based on polling the directory contents in regular
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| 442 | intervals. While this method works well for a small number of watched
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| 443 | directories with just few files in them, it may significantly slow down the
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| 444 | system if you work with a directory containing thousands of files.
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| 445 |
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| 446 | Therefore, is strongly recommended to install or upgrade to xWorkplace version
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| 447 | 1.0.8 or above to make sure that you will not suffer from the described problem.
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| 448 | You will also need to make sure that the "Enable folder auto-refresh" check box
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| 449 | located on the "Folder Views" page in the Workplace Shell settings notebook is
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| 450 | turned on in order to enable the notification mechanism (note that you may need
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| 451 | to reboot after changing its state).
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| 452 |
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| 453 |
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| 454 |
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[429] | 455 | ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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| 456 |
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| 457 | The Qt library recognizes a number of OS/2-specific environment variables that
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| 458 | affect its functionality at runtime. The table below lists these variables and
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| 459 | their meaning:
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| 460 |
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[740] | 461 | QT_PM_NO_DIVE If set, Qt will not use DIVE (direct interface video
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| 462 | extensions) for painting widgets even if DIVE (which
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| 463 | provides a much faster painting speed than the
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| 464 | regular GPI approach) is available. Currently, this
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| 465 | is the default setting if the Panorama video driver
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| 466 | is detected because its DIVE implementation contains
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| 467 | a number of bugs.
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| 468 |
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| 469 | QT_PM_DIVE=<mode> Enables using DIVE for painting widgets. <mode> is
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| 470 | one of:
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| 471 |
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| 472 | - FB (direct framebuffer access, which is the
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| 473 | fastest mode but causes the curruption of the
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| 474 | screen under the software mouse pointer due to
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| 475 | the limitation of DIVE). If this mode is not
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| 476 | available, BLIT will be used (see below).
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| 477 |
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| 478 | - FBSWM (the same FB but hides the mouse pointer
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| 479 | before painting which introduces mouse flicker
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| 480 | and may be a bit slower than the raw FB).
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| 481 |
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| 482 | - BLIT (slower than both FB and FBSWM but prevents
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| 483 | screen corruption under the mouse pointer and
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[807] | 484 | does not produce the mouse pointer flicker
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[740] | 485 | effect).
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| 486 |
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| 487 | This variable is ignored if QT_PM_NO_DIVE is set. If
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| 488 | neither this nor the QT_PM_NO_DIVE variable is set,
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| 489 | the FBSWM mode is used by default (unless the
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| 490 | current video driver is Panorama, see above).
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| 491 |
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[429] | 492 | QT_PM_NO_SOUND_SHARE If set, Qt will open the audio device in exclusive
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| 493 | only one sound may be played on the computer at a
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| 494 | time. This mode is recommended for some sound cards
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| 495 | when using the Uniaud audio driver as it is known to
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| 496 | have problems with simultaneous playback. In current
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| 497 | Qt builds, this is the default behavior if neither
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| 498 | this nor the QT_PM_SOUND_SHARE variable is set.
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| 499 |
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| 500 | QT_PM_SOUND_SHARE The opposite to the above. If set, Qt will open the
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| 501 | audio device in shared mode. This variable is
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| 502 | ignored if QT_PM_NO_SOUND_SHARE is set.
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| 503 |
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| 504 | QT_PM_NO_REGISTRY If set, Qt will not use the Open32 registry to store
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| 505 | application settings with QSettings. Instead, plain
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| 506 | text INI files will be used for both NativeFormat
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| 507 | and IniFormat. Due to a number of problems in the
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| 508 | Open32 registry implementation (that may easily lead
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| 509 | to registry corruption), this is the default
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| 510 | behavior if neither this nor the QT_PM_REGISTRY
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| 511 | variable is set.
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| 512 |
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| 513 | QT_PM_REGISTRY The opposite to the above. If set, Qt will use the
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[624] | 514 | Open32 registry to store application settings. This
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| 515 | variable is ignored if QT_PM_NO_REGISTRY is set.
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[429] | 516 |
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[624] | 517 | QT_PM_NO_SYSTEM_LOCALE If set, Qt will ignore the regional settings from
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| 518 | the system locale object found in the Country
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| 519 | Palette located in the System Setup folder and will
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| 520 | take them from the internal Qt locale database
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| 521 | according to the current country and language
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| 522 | settings. Due to the fact that this internal Qt
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| 523 | database usually has a better representation of the
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| 524 | regional settings, this is the default behavior if
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| 525 | neither this nor the QT_PM_SYSTEM_LOCALE variable is
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| 526 | set.
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[429] | 527 |
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[624] | 528 | QT_PM_SYSTEM_LOCALE The opposite to the above. If set, Qt will use the
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| 529 | regional settings as found in the default locale
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| 530 | object set the Country Palette. This variable is
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| 531 | ignored if QT_PM_NO_SYSTEM_LOCALE is set.
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[429] | 532 |
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[624] | 533 | LANG This variable can be used to override the default
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| 534 | country and language used in the Qt application both
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| 535 | for regional settings and for translations. The
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| 536 | format of the value is "ll_CC" where <ll> is the
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| 537 | two-letter ISO language code and <CC> is the two-
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| 538 | letter ISO country code. Note that if this variable
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| 539 | is not set, Qt will derive the language and country
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| 540 | from the system country code specified in the
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| 541 | COUNTRY statement of CONFIG.SYS.
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| 542 |
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| 543 |
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| 544 |
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[740] | 545 | COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
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[576] | 546 |
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[740] | 547 | Any Qt executable recognizes a number of command line options that may change
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| 548 | the behavior of the Qt application. Here are the most interesting ones:
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[576] | 549 |
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[740] | 550 | -style <name> Changes the default Qt widget style (theme) to a
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| 551 | style with the given name. The buiil-in styles which
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| 552 | are always available in the official build include:
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| 553 | "windows" (currently, the default on OS/2), "motif",
|
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| 554 | "cde", "plastique" and "cleanlooks". Other styles
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| 555 | may be also provided by the style plugins.
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[576] | 556 |
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[740] | 557 | -graphicssystem <name> Changes the graphics system used to paint widgets.
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| 558 | On OS/2, only two values are supported: "native"
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| 559 | (the default one) and "raster". The "native" system
|
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| 560 | uses DIVE (direct interface video extensions) when
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| 561 | it is available. If DIVE is not available or if it
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| 562 | is disabled (see the QT_PM_NO_DIVE environment
|
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| 563 | variable description for details), the "raster"
|
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| 564 | system will be automatically selected as a fallback.
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[576] | 565 |
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| 566 |
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[740] | 567 |
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[144] | 568 | CURRENT LIMITATIONS
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| 569 |
|
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[740] | 570 | 1. configure.cmd is does not build demos and examples by default (to save
|
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| 571 | time). They may be built by hand, as described above.
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[144] | 572 |
|
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[830] | 573 | 2. configure.cmd does not understand all command line options understood by
|
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| 574 | configure scripts on other platforms. If you want to customize your build
|
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| 575 | of the Qt library (which is normally not recommended and not supported),
|
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| 576 | you may try to modify configure.cmd itself.
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[524] | 577 |
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[740] | 578 | 3. OS/2 bitmap fonts are not supported. Use TTF or Type1 (PFB) fonts with Qt.
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[144] | 579 |
|
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[740] | 580 | 4. No native PM style, but Qt will use fonts and colors from the current
|
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[320] | 581 | OS/2 theme. Hint: if your default OS/2 font is "WarpSans", install the
|
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| 582 | "Workplace Sans" TTF font from Alex Taylor to get more native look & feel.
|
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[740] | 583 | It is recommended to install version 0.7 of the Normal face and version 0.3
|
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[320] | 584 | of the Bold face which you can find here:
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[144] | 585 |
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[320] | 586 | http://users.socis.ca/~ataylo00/creative/fonts/workplace/
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[287] | 587 |
|
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[740] | 588 | 5. QProcess: when starting PM applications from text-mode applications, the
|
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[524] | 589 | returned PID is a PID of the intermediate cmd.exe process, not the target
|
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| 590 | application.
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[145] | 591 |
|
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[740] | 592 | 6. The following classes are not available due to their rare usage or low
|
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[524] | 593 | importance on the OS/2 platform: QSharedMemory, QSystemSemaphore,
|
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[740] | 594 | QInputContext. On the source level, a number of macros is defined to
|
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| 595 | reflect this, respectively: QT_NO_SYSTEMSEMAPHORE, QT_NO_SHAREDMEMORY,
|
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| 596 | QT_NO_IM. Normally, Qt applications use these macros in the form of
|
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| 597 | "#fndef QT_NO_SOMEFEATURE" to isolate the relevant parts of the code that
|
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| 598 | uses these classes so that the application still builds when the
|
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| 599 | corresponding feature is missing.
|
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[243] | 600 |
|
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[740] | 601 | 7. No qt3support module. This functionality is rarely necessary in mature
|
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| 602 | real life Qt applications and has low priority. In the code, it is
|
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| 603 | reflected by the absense of the QT3_SUPPORT macro.
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[145] | 604 |
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[740] | 605 | 8. The following features are missing (either because of the lack of the
|
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| 606 | required support from the system side or because of the rare usage):
|
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| 607 |
|
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| 608 | - IPV6 support in the network module (QT_NO_IPV6 is defined).
|
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| 609 | - phonon module (QT_NO_PHONON is defined).
|
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| 610 | - multimedia module (QT_NO_MULTIMEDIA is defined).
|
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| 611 | - OpenGL module (QT_NO_OPENGL is defined).
|
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| 612 | - declarative module (QT_NO_DECLARATIVE is defined).
|
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| 613 | - tablet support (QT_NO_TABLET is defined).
|
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| 614 |
|
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[524] | 615 | See the project roadmap for more information on the current progress and
|
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| 616 | future plans:
|
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[144] | 617 |
|
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[524] | 618 | http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4/roadmap
|
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[144] | 619 |
|
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[524] | 620 | Feel free to request new features and report bugs using the project bug
|
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| 621 | tracker abaialble at:
|
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[188] | 622 |
|
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[524] | 623 | http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4/report
|
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| 624 |
|
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| 625 |
|
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| 626 |
|
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[144] | 627 | CREDITS
|
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| 628 |
|
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| 629 | Dmitry A. Kuminov (development)
|
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| 630 | Silvan Scherrer (management)
|
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| 631 |
|
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| 632 | netlabs.org (hosting & support)
|
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| 633 |
|
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| 634 | Nokia Corporation (original Qt library)
|
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| 635 |
|
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| 636 | We also want to THANK all individuals and organizations who made the donations
|
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| 637 | to this project and helped to make it happen. Please visit
|
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| 638 |
|
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| 639 | http://qt.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml
|
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| 640 |
|
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| 641 | to get the full list of sponsors and to find information on how you can support
|
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| 642 | the project.
|
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| 643 |
|
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| 644 |
|
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| 645 | Qt is a trademark of Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
|
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| 646 | OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are trademarks of the IBM Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
|
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| 647 | eComStation is a trademark of Serenity Systems International and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
|
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| 648 | Etc.
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