[CMake] How do you go about building the cmake-gui from source in 2.8.4?

[Michael Wild]

On 05/15/2011 12:31 PM, Dick Munroe wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/14/11 9:49 AM, cmake-request at cmake.org wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:42:45 -0400
>> From: John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [CMake] How do you go about building the cmake-gui from
>>     source    in 2.8.4?
>> To: Dick Munroe<munroe at csworks.com>
>> Cc:cmake at cmake.org
>> Message-ID:<BANLkTikKyM8fRYR2a6tEgKQfAFcoGnsmnQ at mail.gmail.com>
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>>
>>> >  Yeah, I figured that part out indirectly.
>>> >
>>> >  I had to install the QT4 SDK to get the necessary bits, but
>>> rcc.exe (Windows
>>> >  XP, desktop component of QT) fails for no obvious reason.
>>> >
>> Did you build that from scratch using Visual Studio 2005 and not any
>> other compiler or version?
> No.  On most systems, SDKs are either provided with a list of the system
> requirements or multiple SDKs are provided.  There doesn't appear to be
> any obvious documentation on the QT4 download page that states the SDK
> needs to be rebuilt to match each specific configuration or provides a
> list of the system requirement for the specific SDK.  Clearly Windoze
> has different expectations.

The Qt-SDK download on the http://qt.nokia.com/downloads website is a
MinGW build. AFAIK the reasoning is, that since the SDK comes with the
QtCreator IDE, you get a complete toolchain without requiring developers
to buy a very expensive VS license. But that also means, that you HAVE
to use MinGW. BTW, QtCreator directly supports CMake projects provided
you have another CMake version installed already. But you clearly must
have, since bootstrapping CMake does not work with VS, only with MinGW
or Cygwin.

>>> >
>>> >  Here is what I posted on the QT installation/deployment forum
>>> about the
>>> >  problem:
>>> >
>>> >  I?m trying to rebuild CMake-gui.
>> Are you trying to modify it for some reason? I also do not see the
>> need to rebuild it.
>>
> Yes, but the reason isn't the point here, the point is that the tools
> provided by the QT4 SDK fail.  Asking about why the rebuild is necessary
> or desirable isn't particularly helpful.  I could think of a dozen
> different reasons, including simple interest, for wanting to rebuild
> cmake-gui.

But then again, you are harassing the wrong people with your problem. If
Qt doesn't work for you, you really should ask your questions here:
http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-interest

>>> >  I?ve gotten to the point where I downloaded
>>> >  and installed the QT4 SDK, configured CMake for VS 2005 and fired
>>> up the
>>> >  build, which failed when trying to run rcc.exe. When I try to run
>>> RCC.EXE
>>> >  directly from the command prompt, I get:
>>> >
>>> >  The system cannot execute the specified program.
>>> >
>>> >  When I try it from cygwin?s command prompt, I get:
>>> >
>> You should not mix cygwin building and visual studio building. What
>> are you doing here?
>>
> Hmmm, could be that I'm trying to see what's blowing up without VS 2005
> getting in the way so that I can provide more information to the people
> who might be helpful?  Each command shell has specific pluses and
> minuses that may or may not provide additional information to smart
> folks with more experience in this area that I have.  I'm simply stating
> facts: when I fire up RCC I get this error under command shell x, that
> error under command shell y, when I use this tool, I get information z. 
> Since I DON'T know what the problem is, I DON'T know, a priori, what
> information will be helpful.

Again, the wrong place to complain...

>>> >  Permission Denied
>>> >
>>> >  Firing up Dependency Walker, I get an error when opening rcc.exe:
>>> >
>>> >  The side-by-side configuration information for
>>> >  ??desktop\qt\4.7.3\msvc2005\bin\RCC.EXE? contains errors. This
>>> application
>>> >  has failed to start because the application configuration is
>>> incorrect.
>>> >  Reinstalling the application may fix this problem (14001).
>>> >
>> This usually means you do not have the correct run times installed.
>> Did you download the Visual Studio 2008 binary release. That will not
>> work with Visual Studio 2005. You need to build Qt for your compiler.
>>
> Which would be cool if that was documented anywhere.  I'll give that a
> try and see if I can get that to work.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Dick Munroe

Quick question: did you install SP 1 for VS 2005? See:
http://doc.trolltech.com/latest/requirements-win.html

Michael