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@@ -17,20 +17,15 @@ tools are:
Free Tools Build:
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MinGW
-Qt 4.7.4 or higher
-CVS (you may elect to use the cvs available in cygwin, but see the
- note below)
-cygwin (optional) - if you want to debug, you'll need gdb from cygwin. I
- recommend installing it with DOS newline support,
- not Unix newline support (especially if you use cygwin's
- cvs client).
+Qt 4.8
+git
+cygwin (optional) - if you want to debug, you'll need gdb from cygwin.
Microsoft Tools Build:
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-Visual C++ (I use 15.00.21022.08 in Quackle 0.97)
-Qt 4.4.x or higher (I use 4.4.1 in Quackle 0.97)
-CVS (you may elect to use the cvs available in cygwin, but see the
- note below)
+Visual C++
+Qt 4.8
+git
Installer build:
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@@ -50,7 +45,10 @@ in your environment...
Building is very straightforward. The following steps will get you to a
working executable...
-* Check out or update the quackle development directory using cvs.
+* Make sure your PATH includes Qt's 'bin' directory. If you're building
+ with MinGW, make sure your PATH includes MinGW's 'bin' directory, and
+ that it's earlier than Qt's 'bin' directory on the PATH (otherwise,
+ attempts to run it from the build layout may fail with DLL errors).
* In the directories quackle\, quackle\quackleio, and quackle\quacker,
do the following...
@@ -60,14 +58,14 @@ working executable...
mingw32-make <target> nmake <target>
<target> can be debug, release, or empty if you want to build both.
-* You can now run quackle\quacker\release\quacker.exe
+* You can now run quackle\quacker\release\Quackle.exe
Additional things to know:
--------------------------
* To build the Quackle installer,
+ Copy QtCore4.dll and QtGui4.dll from Qt's bin/ directory into quackle\
- + If you're building with MinGW, copy mingwm10.dll and
+ + If you're building with MinGW, copy mingwm10.dll, libstdc++-6.dll, and
libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll from MinGW's bin/ directory into quackle\
+ From the Quackle directory, run the following...
<full path to Inno Setup's ISCC.exe> installer.iss /FQuackleInstaller /O. /Q
@@ -91,7 +89,7 @@ Additional things to know:
Building Qt libraries
---------------------
- You can download the mingw or Visual Studio 2008 version of the prebuilt
+ You can download the mingw or Visual Studio versions of the prebuilt
Qt libraries.
To build your own libraries, download
@@ -111,4 +109,4 @@ Building Qt libraries
configure process.
Here's a helpful document on the process:
- http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/install-win.html
+ https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/install-win.html